Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Florida Supreme Court will decide whether it is legal for the counties to hand count their ballots and whether Harris is required to accept these counts...
...STOP THE HAND COUNTS...
...Gore team sues Harris for failing to adhere to Judge Lewis' Tuesday ruling. Gore claims she did not use appropriate discretion before dismissing the counties' request to submit hand-counted ballots...
...Bush files federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami to halt all hand counts. The argument: since there is no uniform standard governing hand counts, voters will be treated unequally, violating their equal protection rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution...
...Federal District Court, Bush lawyer Theodore Olson argues that the hand-count process is "selective, standardless, subjective, unreliable and inherently biased." Gore lawyer Bruce Rogow responds that the hand count is more accurate and actually increases democracy. Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, rejects the Bush argument, finding that election mechanics are a state, not a federal, issue...