Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Which brings us back to the Florida Supremes, which moved ahead, but did not rule, on a request by Palm Beach County that it clarify conflicting rulings on the recounts from Secretary of State Katherine Harris and Florida Attorney General Bob Butterworth, a Democrat. The court set a deadline for early Thursday for legal briefs in that lawsuit, and also agreed to allow the Gore campaign and Broward County to join...
...With the 2 p.m. deadline for "Why I Want a Recount" notes come and gone, Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris has received letters of justification from Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County, and - who knew? - Collier County, in the Naples area...
...Broward, the most Democratic county in the state, a moving van full of ballots has pulled up to the Broward County Emergency Operations Center (built for hurricanes, but this'll do), and now the county that tested and rejected a manual recount (and then was sued by the Democrats to reconsider) is about to start playing the chad game...
...their letter in on time, and they're eager to start, but they're afraid of lawyers. With the "butterfly ballot" plaintiffs fighting for airtime, the canvassing board is waiting for some resolution of the legal actions - Harris's and Bush's in the Supreme Court, Bush's in state court - seeking to prevent them. This county is now Most Likely to Drag This Out Into Next Week...
...Warren Christopher has a proposal of his own; shockingly enough, it involves lawyers. The former secretary of state and Gore surrogate-in-chief emerged Wednesday just before noon to accuse Katherine Harris of stalling for time and to try to claim the "let's end this" mantle for the Democrats...