Word: stated
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...somber George W. Bush assured the nation last night that he had won the U.S. presidential election, mere hours after the state of Florida finally certified his victory...
Addressing a nationwide television audience from Texas last night, Bush pointedly urged Gore to withdraw his legal protests and concede the election. He also named his vice presidential candidate, Dick Cheney to head his transition team and announced that former Mass. state representative Andrew Card would be his chief of staff...
...After some mixed messages, Miami-Dade officials ultimately insisted that the rioters had not scared them into calling off their recount the day after the state Supreme Court had said to go ahead; there just wasn't enough time to count 654,000 votes by hand before Sunday, they said. But Democrats were convinced the protests provided them their opening to revisit Miami-Dade's decision. A recount of about one sixth of the ballots had found 156 new votes for Gore, and if the county would just finish the job, Gore believed, it could provide him the margin...
...fairly counted, he would have won Florida by more than 30,000 votes. In his view, the fact that he won the national popular vote gives him license to prove he would have won Florida as well, were it not for badly designed ballots and faulty voting machines. The state court was reconciling conflicting statutes when it extended the deadline for completing the hand counts that Florida law permits; it was not usurping the legislature's role...
...legal battle looked to move ahead on multiple tracks: the Gore camp's contest of the results in the state courts, and the Bush camp's appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The high court does not traditionally like to muck around in state matters, much less presidential elections. But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline? Did it violate a federal law that requires that electors...