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With all eyes of the world now focused on the Sunshine State and the "historical moment" to which we all bear witness in this unique election, it is no wonder that many have become disappointed with the technicality-invoking nature of our American system of voting and the dual natures it presents by maintaining the Electoral College system. The frustration has been fierce from both the Bush and Gore camps, and our political parties are now entrenched in their positions about what should have been an objective administrative matter. To be sure, even Senator-elect Hillary Rodham Clinton has pledged...
...Palm Beach County: County election officials were up in arms because Secretary of State Katherine Harris refused to accept their recount numbers after they missed the deadline at 5 p.m. Sunday. Gore lawyers argued those new calculations would have helped their candidate...
...background: On Tuesday, Nov. 21, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the recounts were to continue, and the results were to be included in the final state tally. The Bush legal team immediately filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which agreed to hear opening arguments from both campaigns. And while everyone involved in the case was duly awestruck by the prospect of an audience with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justices' ultimate decision may end up meaning little, especially when compared to the more immediate and pressing decisions facing Florida's state courts. After all, even through...
...Florida State Courts...
...butterfly ballot appeal: At last, a bit of closure: According to the Florida high court, the infamous butterfly ballot is legal. While the plaintiffs (i.e., Gore and allies) claimed that the Palm Beach County ballot (which placed candidates' names on both sides of the ballot's punch holes) violates state election law, which requires that all candidates' names be to the left of the holes, the court saw things differently. Friday evening, the Justices upheld a lower court's ruling that the ballots are legal and dismissed the Democrats' case "with prejudice." (In other words, they rejected the appeal...