Word: handing
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...then declare victory and call a halt to the whole business--the Bush campaign is giving signs of succumbing to the same hallucinogenic haze of ambition that has clouded the mind of the Prince of Tennessee. The Bush camp's decision to file a lawsuit to halt the hand recount in a few heavily Democratic Florida counties may be necessary, but the hints of a hard-line strategy emanating from Austin--in which close states like Iowa and Wisconsin would be contested ballot by ballot and precinct by precinct--should give even the most partisan conservative pause. Gore...
With as many as 10,000 ballots in Palm Beach County read by computers as having no presidential vote, Florida election officials made the right decision yesterday in ordering a hand recount of votes in the county. The Bush camp protested the decision on grounds that hand counts will be influenced by political interests and will be inaccurate. But where's the accuracy and fairness in blatantly ignoring the will of 10,000 voters...
...hand count could swing the final vote in favor of Vice President Al Gore '69. But Texas Gov. George W. Bush cannot try to block the hand recount and expect to emerge from this campaign as a man of integrity--whether or not he becomes our next president. As much as the arguments for advocating or dismissing the hand count are colored by partisan interests, the fair administration of elections is not a partisan issue...
...president, his integrity and the integrity of the Florida ballot count will be questioned. But if we're that concerned about integrity, we should begin by questioning our wasteful campaign structure itself--not its inevitable by-products. In the meantime, let's hope for a fair administration of the hand count, so that this country has at least one thing it can trust...
Republican lawyers will ask Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks to issue an injunction barring a hand recount of every ballot cast in Palm Beach County, on the basis that such recounts are significantly prone to error, and that Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, would be deprived of their constitutional rights...