Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Will the American public accept a president elected by a recount? A recount demanded by a divided state supreme court? A president elected by some number of chads - hanging, dimpled, pregnant or otherwise...
...exactly, will all these ballots be scoured for votes? Any vote that shows, in the words of the court, "clear indication of the intent of the voters" shall be included. Politically, the message in this directive was clear: The Florida Justices used language approved by the Florida State Legislature. What are the practical implications of the instructions? Is there to be a set statewide standard? Nobody seems to know...
...Perhaps this historic election deserved nothing less. The Florida Supreme Court, by an all-too-appropriate 4-3 vote, has thrown open Pandora's Boxes all across the state of Florida by ordering manual recounts of undervotes "in all counties that have not already undergone them...
...with restrained elation and a brand-new plea: Let the counts finish, it won't be long. But even if the counts now ordered survive an instantly filed injunction/appeal by the Bush team up the stairs to the U.S. Supreme Court, can the approximately 180,000 undervotes across the state of Florida be dusted off, sifted through and tallied...
...legislature have not adapted to the new landscape yet. They've promised to name their own slate of electors on Wednesday if finality does not arrive to this never-final affair, and they haven't changed their schedule yet. But they may have a few days to play with: State Senate leader John McKay insisted this week that his experts had told him the 16th, not the 12th, was the true brick wall for the naming of Florida's electors. But today Republican state senator Daniel Webster pegged Wednesday again: If there is no finality, he said, we will bring...