Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore that went live on the evening news with a lawyer-free, two-pronged offer that was the best PR coup of his very long campaign: Let the hand counts go on in the three Democratic counties - or hold hand-counts statewide - and include them in the certified results. Loser takes his legal team and goes home...
...Everyone in Florida has had their vote counted. Those votes have been counted a second time. And tonight they have been certified. And we do not know yet who has won." Hand-counting, Bush said, "introduces human error and politics into the vote-counting process." A statewide hand-count, he said, would only be "compounding the error by extending a flawed process statewide? This would be neither fair nor accurate, it would be arbitrary and chaotic...
...hold on. Bush obviously assumes that the absentee ballots will only add to his 300-vote officially certified lead. Gore obviously assumes that hand-counts - whether they're in three counties or sixty-seven - will put him over the top. This hasn't gone on long enough for either candidate to bet against the odds...
...neither man would have made his statement without a little legal confidence. Gore went out armed with Wednesday's Florida Supreme Court decision declaring the hand counts legal. (Bush's lawyers have taken that to federal appeals court in Atlanta, and it probably won't stop there.) And Bush had the curt statement of Harris, who is turning into his personal Janet Reno, to lean on. Harris held a 9:30 p.m. press conference to declare that she had duly considered the three counties' appeal to have their manual counts included in the official tally, and had found them decidedly...
...There's sure to be a paragraph in those newspaper stories about Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris' own press conference two hours later, in which she held the line on hand recounts: No county had sufficiently justified its reason for a manual recount, and therefore the certification process will end Saturday as scheduled. No deal...