Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Boies also began the process of softening up the Dec. 12 deadline, "which is not a deadline," he told Russert. "It's a safe harbor." Warren Christopher followed up on "Late Edition" (Boies has a big day Monday) and carefully stretched the endgame into next week...
...Saturday, by a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the stay George W. Bush had asked for 18 hours before, putting a halt to a rickety process of sorting and counting some 44,000 undervotes just as it was getting under way. Hearings have been scheduled for Monday morning at 11 (briefs were handed over Sunday at 4 p.m.), and as always it is anybody's guess in this unprecedented non-election what exactly the Court has on its mind. But for now, here are some clues as to what they are thinking...
...Florida Supreme Court but was doing his candidacy "irreparable harm." More ominously for Gore, they may also agree, as Bush's application claimed, that the Florida Supreme Court decision was unconstitutional, that it conflicted with Article II - which says the legislature chooses electors - and that it violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In which case, they'll toss the whole thing out, and go back to the original certification of Bush as the winner...
...other 60-odd counties hit with a judicial cattle prod Friday night, most canvassing boards were still scrambling for guidance and starting the process of culling out the undervotes from piles as large as 291,000 ballots in Duval County (which had the benefit of Miami-Dade's sorting software) and some 200,000 in Hillsborough. Some had expected to meet Judge Terry Lewis' 2 p.m. Sunday deadline; some were shooting for Monday or later...
...Unless those all-important five Supremes have already made up their minds to put a George W. Bush presidency in the books after some obligatory Monday hearings, they might have missed at least one opportunity for efficiency in a process that needs every minute it can get. Couldn't it have authorized the sorting to continue, so that canvassing boards could have their piles in a row and ready for a Monday-evening sprint to beat the 12th...