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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...election was close, but tonight, after a count, a recount and yet another manual recount, Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives us the needed electoral votes to win the election," he said...
...count the votes fairly, he said; and that just didn't sound right coming from a man who spent a year talking about how much he trusts the people. To compound the problem, it emerged that in 1997 Bush signed a law saying that in close Texas elections, manual recounts are preferable to electronic recounts; Texas law even specifies that hanging and dimpled chads--punch-card holes still partly attached to the ballot or merely dented--should be counted. Gore would be delighted to abide by Texas rules in Florida...
...capital punishment. Within two hours of the court's decision, the Vice President got more good news. The canvassing board in Miami-Dade County decided to begin a hand recount of its 654,000 votes. And a federal appeals court in Atlanta rejected Bush's plea to stop all manual recounts on constitutional grounds...
...anyone's right to protest," says Miami-Dade Democratic chairman Joe Geller, who had to have a police escort. "These were Brownshirt tactics." It was the Dade vote counters, however, who provoked the Republican machine. Seemingly oblivious to GOP anger over the Florida Supreme Court ruling to allow manual recounts, the canvassing board tried an end run around the court's Sunday deadline by 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...
...what the final hand counts revealed, there was now a chance they'd be tossed out. But some Democrats saw it as a lifeline: it was a chance to fight on at least another week and, if the Justices ruled their way, to gain the ultimate legitimization of the manual recounts. "I don't think Gore can walk away," said Louisiana senator John Breaux, widely considered the most agnostic about new legal challenges to the election. "As long as something is pending in court, it would be difficult for Gore to fold his tent...