Word: handed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Both sides file briefs in the Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Bush's team reiterates its case that hand counts are unconstitutional; Gore's team continues to insist that federal courts have no say in the matter...
...Republicans in Broward County file suit in state circuit court to stop the county's hand counts. Lawyers subpoena Broward's 3-member canvassing board...
...State circuit court rejects the Republican attempt to stop the Broward County hand count...
...sits on the canvassing board, a job that most find dull but she enjoys because she likes to be in the action on election night. For her, the unending election night was heaven--and Palm Beach the red-hot center of paradise. After a sample of ballots were hand counted for an excruciating 17 hours and Gore picked up extra votes, Roberts did the math in her head: if he got 19 more votes from recounting only 1% of the ballots, he might get 1,900 more votes in a full recount. That would change the election outcome...
...other hand, when that train is wrecked, he is the only survivor--not a scratch on him. This interests Elijah Price (Samuel L. Jackson), who is Dunn's obvious opposite--an elegant, well-spoken dude who runs an upscale store dealing in original comic-book art. He is also afflicted by a congenital illness that causes his bones to shatter on the slightest contact--reason enough, one imagines, to account for his cranky manner...