Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...majority seemed to feel that it would be harmful to presidential legitimacy to allow the hand count to continue and perhaps undermine the President-elect - read Bush. The dissenting opinion essentially said, Let the recount continue so that we at least have the numbers in case we decide the Florida Supreme Court was right. What's the harm? they wondered. The majority seemed to believe the harm was irreparable...
...success of another bit of Bush propaganda has made Americans dubious about the Florida Supreme Court's remedy. And that is a Bush depiction of hand recounts as somehow underhanded, of hand recounts being even more unreliable than machines, of handcounts as being somehow unfair...
...nation, ruling 4-3 in favor of an immediate recount of all "undervotes" across the state and reversing Judge N. Sanders Sauls' rejection of Gore's contest of the Florida election results. The court also ordered that 383 Gore votes collected in Palm Beach County and Miami-Dade county hand recounts be included in the official tally. Those additions whittle Bush's lead down to 154 from the previous tally of 537. If the court's ruling stands - and there are bound to be appeals - Gore stands a good chance of picking up enough votes...
...however, SCOTUS agrees to take the case but refuses to issue a stay, or if the high court declines to hear the case at all, the manual count will continue. And that scenario, of course, presents a potential public relations disaster for Bush: If the hand counts go on, and more votes are continually added to Gore's column, it could be increasingly difficult for the governor to convince people he did, in fact, win Florida...
...problem with that charge is this: Hand recounts have been the most trusted response to close votes in this country for a century - that is, as long as machines have been around to louse things up. The law has always enshrined hand counts as a more accurate reflection of voter intent than machines...