Word: hillsborough
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...implementing the hand count, offer any specifics. So on Saturday, before the U.S. Supreme Court halted the counting, each of 64 canvassing boards was making its own decisions - on dimples, on who would observe the counts, on how to separate the undervoted ballots from the others, and so on. Hillsborough County, for instance, decided not to count dimples. (Says canvassing board member Marcia Reynolds, "These chads are a living nightmare.") But Miami-Dade had already started a hand count last month that included dimples...
...judicial cattle prod Friday night, most canvassing boards were still scrambling for guidance and starting the process of culling out the undervotes from piles as large as 291,000 ballots in Duval County (which had the benefit of Miami-Dade's sorting software) and some 200,000 in Hillsborough. Some had expected to meet Judge Terry Lewis' 2 p.m. Sunday deadline; some were shooting for Monday or later...
Around 2 a.m., Rove called the Governor. "Mr. President," he began, and then he told him what they'd just learned. They had won enough votes in Florida's Hillsborough County to win the state--and the whole prize. Ninety-eight percent of the precincts were in, and they were ahead by more than 50,000 votes...
...Around 2 a.m., Rove called the Governor. "Mr. President," he began, and then he told him what they'd just learned. They had won enough votes in Florida's Hillsborough County to win the state - and the whole prize. Ninety-eight percent of the precincts were in, and they were ahead by more than 50,000 votes...
...keep calling to plumb her latest thoughts. George W. Bush and Al Gore have been spending so much time in the Tampa-St. Petersburg area of Florida that they are beginning to seem like neighbors. "In the past, if they came once, it was a momentous occasion," says Hillsborough County commissioner Jan Platt. "Now it's, 'Oh, here they are again.'" The presidential race is so close that every vote matters, but it's becoming clear that some votes matter more than others. "This election," says Bush strategist Karl Rove, "is going to be decided in the last precinct...