Word: making
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Gore began with the usual boilerplate about how this was a test of democracy, and followed with a classic Gore-as-schoolteacher explanation of why machines sometimes make mistakes. ("Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...") He insisted that those mistakes can be caught in manual recounts, recounts that are "accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters...
...Somewhere in Asia, Bill Clinton, the Hannibal of p.r. coups like this one, is cackling with delight. Because Al Gore will get his day as America's bigger man, the first to personally make any meaningful proposal in front of the nation. Bush is nowhere to be seen; he scheduled and then canceled a press availability Wednesday morning. Now Bush will be hard-pressed to stand up and turn both proposals down without sounding like he's trying to silence Florida voters by stopping recounts "already begun...
...delaying the process? The Gore camp, Baker said, is "unwilling to make any commitment to accept finality in this election unless it receives the outcome it wants"; they make "false statements to divert attention"; and as for the illegality of the Palm Beach ballot, "that charge has faded now in the face of the finding that the ballot is legal...
...Wednesday, the Commotion by the Ocean was right back where it started. Hand counts are legal, if not necessarily acceptable past the long-past Tuesday deadline. The Bush camp wants to stop them, the Gore camp wants to make sure they matter. Broward County is counting again, under heavy pressure from the Democratic party. And Palm Beach County, for reasons known only to its canvassing board, wants very badly to count its 400,000-odd ballots by hand, but hasn't started...
...Meanwhile, Palm Beach County seems determined to be the make-or-break element in this whole affair. After planning to begin a hand count early Wednesday morning, the county canvassing board - a bit embroiled in scandal itself after Republicans accused board member Carol Roberts, a Democrat, of taking some "chads" literally into her own hands - is waiting to hear from the circuit court how they should deal with "pregnant chads." Is a dimple an intended vote? Or does the lack of a puncture mean a lack of a vote...