Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...argued, which provided more grounds to challenge the outcome. Democrats have collected 10,000 affidavits from voters who said they were confused by the ballot's design, had trouble punching the hole they wanted or were refused assistance or given wrong instructions by poll workers. Said a senior Gore legal adviser: "Even the man who invented the machine says these votes need to be looked...
...great Dick Cheney sounded on the phone, that his hospitalization was just a precaution; he hadn't had a heart attack, even though his own aides knew Cheney had actually had a stent placed in his artery and neglected to mention it. Asked about his next legal move, Bush referred to his legal eagles--"Jim Baker is in charge of the team in Florida, and he's doing a really good job down there"--as though he had no idea he was about to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court...
Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in a lawsuit." He added, "I don't think his support will collapse immediately, but there's got to be some real concern about a guy who lost the initial returns, the automatic recount, the first certification and the second certification...
...better off if Gore lost. Even some liberal Democrats thought Bush might in some ways be easier to work with in the White House, since he would have a powerful incentive to reach out to them and make peace. Although some congressional Democratic strategists are ambivalent about Gore's legal crusade, for fear of a backlash in the 2002 elections, party activists are so strongly behind Gore that it's not in the interest of congressional leaders to be anything but fully supportive in public. "We'll be with him all the way to the end," a Democratic strategist says...
...deciding to recount only some 11,000 of Dade's 654,000 ballots. Those disputed ballots, most of which did not register presidential votes in the machines, were thought to favor Gore. Worse, the board moved into a smaller room that cut off public observation. "They denied our legal rights," says Paul Crespo, an ex-Marine and coordinator of a group called Young Professionals for Bush. "We cried foul." In fact, the Republicans, who justifiably delight in throwing 1960s chants back at Democrats, began shouting, "The whole world is watching...