Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...bigger question, said Gerken, is "what role will courts play in the political process...
...course of five and a half hours, the GOP called five witnesses. Three discussed the alleged irregularities they personally observed during the Miami-Dade recount process - including dropping ballot boxes, fanning the ballots like cards, doing pretty much everything short of taking the ballots along with them to the bathroom - apparently hoping to establish the fallibility of human hands when it comes to counting ballots and to discredit the idea of recounting once again...
...Gore attorney Stephen Zack, who is possibly the most irritating and sycophantic lawyer to surface over the past four weeks, cross-examined Ahmann vigorously, asking the expert if perhaps the ballot manufacturers were not aware of the rigors a ballot might go through during an election process - implying there was no reason to believe the ballots were so weak they'd just fall apart and be unable to serve their express purpose just because voters and counters were holding them...
...Happily for the Democrats, while Burton managed to score a few points for Bush's cause of discrediting the admittedly erratic recount process in Palm Beach ("There's bound to be some opinion involved in situations like this," Burton remarked ruefully during Bartlit's direct) those doubts may be enough to plant a lingering question in Judge Sauls' mind. If all Palm Beach County needed was a set of guidelines to ensure "a fair and accurate" count, could Sauls be just the guy to set such parameters...
...addition to speaking about space concerns, the administrators also addressed advising, issues of disciplinary action and rape reporting--saying a student proposal for "an impartial student advocate" in the disciplinary process was "a good idea...