Word: handing
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Besides continuing court challenges in Florida from both sides, the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday will hear Bush's case against a Florida state Supreme Court decision that allowed hand recounts to continue...
Yesterday, with time running out before the 5 p.m. deadline for submitting final vote tallies to Harris' office, Palm Beach remained 800 to 1,000 ballots short of finishing its hand recount. The Palm Beach canvassing board then requested that Harris include its partial recount in her final tally, but Harris denied the request. The partial recount would have given Gore a net gain of 180 votes...
...What we need is a complete and accurate hand recount. That's the most...
...Mexico has worked this out. If the voters deadlock, the law hands the outcome over to a game of chance: the candidates can flip a coin, draw a card from a deck or play a hand of poker--assuming they can agree. Florida law allows for drawing straws. But this tie is elusive, imperfect as the election that produced it because when you are shuffling through 6 million votes and double-punched ballots and hanging chads and missing postmarks and the whole archaeology of human frailty, every count by machine or by hand yields a different result, each so close...
...Supreme Court decision to take the case looked like a huge Bush win: no matter what the final hand counts revealed, there was now a chance they'd be tossed out. But some Democrats saw it as a lifeline: it was a chance to fight on at least another week and, if the Justices ruled their way, to gain the ultimate legitimization of the manual recounts. "I don't think Gore can walk away," said Louisiana senator John Breaux, widely considered the most agnostic about new legal challenges to the election. "As long as something is pending in court...