Word: intented
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...their dreams come true, if only for a little while. But were they coming true? Numbers had been bandied about: 58 net for Gore, 44 net for Bush in Miami-Dade. In Pinellas County, 272 ballots yielded 2 for Bush and 1 for Gore. All the rest were deemed intent-less...
...Friday, and tossed in some "changing the rules in the middle of the game" shots at the ruling Florida four. But Baker wouldn't go any further - he'd had had the rug pulled out from under him too many times over the past 32 days to ascribe any intent to the Court's action. He looked forward to the hearing, and assured reporters George W. Bush's lawyers wouldn't be too tired to show up. For now, waiting until Monday was victory enough...
...with that charge is this: Hand recounts have been the most trusted response to close votes in this country for a century - that is, as long as machines have been around to louse things up. The law has always enshrined hand counts as a more accurate reflection of voter intent than machines...
...decision is about justice and small-"d" democracy, and not about a court with an ideological axe to grind. They must also attempt to persuade the public that manual recounts clarify rather than muddy the vote, and that they are the tried-and-true method of protecting voter intent...
...Florida legislature-derived standard for those counts - where the "intent of the voter" is evident - that is not only subjective but more stringent than the all-vote manual counts in Volusia and Broward counties that cut George W. Bush's lead in half. It has appointed the very judge it rebuffed "in part" with Friday's ruling - N. Sanders Sauls - to do the very job he couldn't bring himself to do. (Sauls immediately recused himself...