Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...experts had to be called in to scrutinize "dimples" on index-card-sized sheets of paper, to assess voter intent. In a national election, there simply isn't a reason why procedures should not to be as uniform as possible across the nation or at least within each state...
...didn't feel it was about colleges, but about the people," he said. "I felt comfortable at the state round, and in the final round, there was the same focus on people and who they were...
...over 43,000 ballots that voting machines had not counted, working to ensure every voter's voice was heard and the winner--whose identity was and is unknown--could rightfully receive Florida's electoral votes through certification tomorrow. Counting these undervotes. not just in Democratic counties, but across the state, was and is the correct thing to do; it seemed able to overturn the growing tide of cynicism that has swept the American public, Democrat and Republican, as every court decision jerked the Presidency in a new direction...
...That night Bush strategist Karl Rove held a conference call with GOP senators and told the skeptical and depressed Republicans that Gore's victory in the state supreme court would be short-lived. The court had clearly "overstepped" its authority, Rove said. The U.S. Supreme Court would have no choice but to lower the boom on the state justices. The senators weren't convinced. They worried that the Supreme Court wouldn't move quickly enough to stop the recount before Gore pulled ahead and the media announced a new winner. That could alter the landscape drastically - and permanently...
...Baker wouldn't declare victory. Instead, he's free to get behind hand counts, with a standard and only if it's truly statewide. New Republican diversion: The overvotes. "There were 175,000 ballots rejected in the state of Florida," Baker declared. "They have to be counted too." He's not sure the vote-reading machines are reliable. But between Wells and Scalia, he figures he's got enough blockers to get Bush in the end zone, and plenty of legal experts say he's correct...