Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...able to hear a number of different perspectives--different to varying degrees," Valerie A. Jackson '01 said. "It was something I needed to hear not just as a young person or a young voter but as a potential participant in the political process...
...wonder that the latest New York Times/CBS poll shows that voters are not panicked about the current lack of a President-elect. They've realized that they aren't particularly involved in the electoral process anyway. Unless you're a constitutional lawyer and a superb statistician, when the Sunshine State finally does figure out who the next President will be, you won't be able to understand how he was chosen. Sheesh. It is a nationwide anti-climax and frankly, after a week of "too-close-to-calls," we're getting a little frustrated...
...Everyone in Florida has had their vote counted. Those votes have been counted a second time. And tonight they have been certified. And we do not know yet who has won." Hand-counting, Bush said, "introduces human error and politics into the vote-counting process." A statewide hand-count, he said, would only be "compounding the error by extending a flawed process statewide... This would be neither fair nor accurate, it would be arbitrary and chaotic...
...Bush then made his p.r. pitch for the Katherine Harris view. "Not for Vice President Gore or me, but for America this process must have a point of conclusion. America and the world must know who will be the next president," he said. "This is precisely why the laws of the state of Florida have deadlines for certification of the election vote. One of them came last night, and tonight, Florida's chief election official and the state's election canvassing commission have reaffirmed it as their responsibilities require...
...There's sure to be a paragraph in those newspaper stories about Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris' own press conference two hours later, in which she held the line on hand recounts: No county had sufficiently justified its reason for a manual recount, and therefore the certification process will end Saturday as scheduled. No deal...