Word: handed
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...without the benefit of such a forward-thinking executive branch, Floridians were stuck. Democrats were hoping that the justices will not only allow the hand recounts to continue and order them to be included in the final tally but also establish a uniform methodology for hand counts. Republicans, of course, wanted an even more conclusive response to the nagging question of voter intent: They were hoping the Court would call an end to the recounts altogether and toss the ballots, dangling chads and all, out the window...
...Tuesday night, the Court ruled that the results of the various hand recounts must be included in Florida's overall vote tally. The counties currently conducting recounts (Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade) have until Sunday night at 5 or Monday morning at 9 to enter their new results with the secretary of state's office...
...Florida Supreme Court stayed up late Tuesday to give Al Gore and his hand counts a morning mandate and a Sunday deadline - rolling up their sleeves, digging into the law and laying out a schedule for the end of the aftermath of Non-Election 2000 that runs right into December...
...result before December 12, the day Florida has to pick which slate of electors to send to Washington. And well worth the wait. Legislatures are fallible - "the will of the people, not a hyper-technical reliance upon statutory provisions, should be our guiding principle in election cases" - and hand counts are supreme. "Our society has not yet gone so far as to place blind faith in machines. In almost all endeavors, including elections, humans routinely correct the errors of machines...
...lawyers will be working Thanksgiving too, trying to turn public opinion into something for Florida Republicans to fear. The Gore team, which made such hay all campaign long with the ironies in Bush's Texas record, will start in tonight on that dimple-friendly Texas hand-count law and never let up; Baker tonight began the p.r. task of explaining it away. The question of dimples is still a question, and if the Bush lawyers continue to strike out it'll be the only question...