Word: handed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...despite the mucking and muddying of Florida law produced by the Bush and Gore camps' dealings with the Florida Supreme Court, one institution stubbornly remains: the hand counts themselves. They reside in the laws of Florida, Texas, Illinois and lots of other states, and are generally accepted as a last resort when elections get too close to call. To a national court mindful on both its left and right flanks of "clouds" over this national election (Scalia himself defended the stay's ability to produce "the public acceptance democratic stability requires"), hand counts themselves may be hard to dismiss...
...During the oral arguments, Scalia missed few opportunities to sneer at Boies for ignoring "equal protection" - what may be sticking in conservative craws the most is the specific inequalities in the current hand count scheme. What could attract Scalia, Rehnquist and Thomas is a hand-count plan that codifies the ballot-by-ballot "voter intent" standard strictly, sensibly and statewide. Boies won't get anywhere with them defending the bloated Democratic counts in Broward, Volusia and one-fifth of Miami-Dade that were summarily blessed Friday by the Florida Supremes, and the conservatives on the high court won't relinquish...
...Hand-count expansion...
...pile, maybe magnifying glasses are too good for him. We make a voter make his way to the polls; do we demand so little of him from that point on? It's a fine line between government disenfranchisement and the self-inflicted kind. We may see a Court-ordered hand count so strictly designed as not to worry Bush...
...time, especially with the nation expecting - and arguably deserving - a high-minded solution from its highest court. They can agree to lift the velvet rope of the December 12 deadline, put the bouncers in the Florida legislature on hold until the 17th or so, and get nearly any hand count that suits them begun and finished with days to spare. A little conservative activism might be just what the founding fathers would have wanted...