Word: partisans
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...reject the hand counts was arbitrary. After all, Harris made her decision before the votes at issue were tabulated, so she may be hard-pressed to argue that she really took into account all the relevant facts. Her critics say she acted before the votes were in for a partisan reason: because she did not want the hand recounting to continue, perhaps eroding Bush's narrow lead. But in her defense, Harris can say, as she has repeatedly, that she was just enforcing the deadline for reporting votes set out by the Florida legislature. It's not a completely frivolous...
...This is not a partisan issue. [This is] a civil rights issue," she said. "It's a matter of 20,000 to 30,000 people in one county feeling that their votes were not properly expressed...
Will the nation ever be able to put aside its partisan infighting and stand behind the "winning" candidate? Well, it's time to call in the experts. A group of people familiar with the consequences of long, drawn-out procedures and the dangers of legal wrangling. A group that has felt the pain of media miscalculations. A group that combats voter apathy on a daily basis. I'm talking about the Undergraduate Council. Here is my contribution to the massive amount of polls that comment on the election that never ended. I call it: The Unscientific Election Poll...
...poll showed that parliamentary bodies find it incredibly difficult to move past partisan disputes. In some cases, council members harked back to past council scandals and their presidential equivalents. One member, although asked only for his full name and class year, went so far as to identify himself as by house, concentration, hometown, council committee and "leader of the 1998 pro-Impeachment rally." Remember, it has been close to a full year since the Burton impeachment. Additionally, in response to the question "Whose fault is the current lack of a definitive winner?" responses ran the gamut. Geoffrey Starks '02 responded...
...Professor Terrence Anderson of the University of Miami law school. "But on an issue like [the Florida election] I would be very surprised if you could detect a bias." Jon Mills, interim dean of the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida, agrees. "This is not a partisan court," he insists...