Word: plaintiff
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...question for Judge Clark, then, is whether the punishment that the Democratic-activist plaintiff wants - either toss out all 15,000 of the county's absentee ballots or come up with some statistically derived alternative in that 1,900 neighborhood - fits the crime...
...Democrats, with Gerald Richman representing both the plaintiff and Al Gore's hopes for a thunderbolt victory, say it's the only remedy. And that's their problem - convincing Clark to throw the presidential election to Gore by throwing away votes...
...plaintiff's case got a good p.r. billing from Gore himself Tuesday - "The Democrats were denied an opportunity to come in, denied a chance to even look at the applications, and those applications were thrown out," he said. And that could be the pivotal issue: whether or not Republicans got favors from Goard that Democrats didn...
...Witness begat witness. The statistician for the plaintiff offered Clark an "alternate remedy" of 1,500-1,800 tossed votes, in case it was the "all" that bothered her about tarshing absentee ballots...
...First, the judge laid down his logic: The plaintiff did not provide evidence showing that the results of the election would have changed if the recount took place. Then, one by one, Sauls struck down Gore's arguments, decimating the case David Boies et al. had taken such care to construct over the weekend...