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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...machine reading a ballot misses a vote that was cast. That can happen when, for example, a chad isn't fully dislodged from a punch card. Florida has more than 61,000 undervoted ballots from this year's presidential race, a large but not shocking number for a state that uses old Votomatics...
...supervisor Fred Galey. That's good for him but - if the hand count resumes - bad for Bush, since Brevard's 277 undervoted ballots probably contain few votes. By contrast, Pinellas County's 4,226 undervoted punch-card ballots could contain hundreds of votes, and Gore won Pinellas. Across the state, undervoted ballots tend to be concentrated in Democratic areas. One explanation: Elderly and new voters make more mistakes on ballots; many of Gore's black supporters were voting for the first time...
...Gore and Bush camps dazed and bloodied, wondering when the next explosion would come. Only Bush and Gore, along with their top lawyers and strategists, seemed to have had a sense of how the week might go. Since both courts had handed down key rulings earlier on - the state supremes extending the timetable for the initial recount, the U.S. Supremes slapping that ruling back to Florida - Bush and Gore knew which courts tended to smile on their claims. On Friday night, Gore told TIME that he was "not all that surprised" by that day's state supreme court decision rescuing...
...just starting," the aide said. Leahy's paperwork really had been interrupted by news of war. "Oh, boy," Leahy said. The state supreme court - in a bitterly divided 4-to-3 ruling - had found for Gore, cutting Bush's Florida lead from 537 votes to 193 (or 154, depending on how some disputed ballots are counted) and ordering an immediate recount of 42,000 "undervotes" from around the state. The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Leahy will be in the thick of things if the election dispute ends up in Congress. He summoned his staff lawyers and ordered...
...outcome of an election in which the appointment of future Justices was a persistent issue. The liberal Florida Supreme Court majority ruled for the sanctity of counting the votes, throwing Gore a lifeline, while the court's own Chief Justice warned that its ruling "propels this country and this state into an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis." Bush allies like Jack Kemp tried to discredit the court, charging that it had carried out a "judicial coup d'état." But then the conservative majority of the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for the sanctity of the election procedures, questioning the legality...