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Dates: during 2000-2000
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George W. Bush planned no victory party and Al Gore planned no concession; both merely packed the Tallahassee streets with protesters and waited. And when the 5 p.m. deadline had been history for two-and-a-half hours, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris walked into the camera-filled Florida State Cabinet Room and certified George W. Bush as the winner of Florida by 537 votes...
...declaring herself Queen of Sheba, for all the legal issues yet unresolved and all the hand counts unfinished. Contesting an officially certified presidential election? Child's play, Boies told reporters, and don't worry. "Everything's going to be over on December 12." He wants to spend the next two weeks suing in Miami-Dade, Nassau and even Palm Beach, which he says was too hard on the dimpled ballots. Boies has been telling everyone who would listen that there are more than 10,000 votes in Miami-Dade that have never been counted because the voting machines spit them...
...inaccurate, fraught with human error!" Strayer cried. In a Winnebago outside, GOP operatives orchestrated the ranks up to the 19th floor, hoping to halt the tally of the largest potential lode of Gore votes. Republicans, not usually known for takin' it to the streets, got what they wanted. Just two hours after a near riot outside the counting room, the Miami-Dade canvassing board voted to shut down the count. Yet the way the Republicans went after it, by intimidating the three-member board or by providing the excuse it was looking for, gave Americans the first TV view...
...What the world watched was a GOP melee. When Geller walked out of the room with a sample ballot, the crowd accused him of stealing a real one and responded as if he had just nabbed a baby for its organs. Geller says he was pushed by two dozen protesters screaming, "I'm gonna take you down!" Luis Rosero, a Democratic observer, claims he was punched and kicked. Republicans dispute the charges, but video cameras caught scenes of activism that had morphed into menace. The organizers in the RV outside, who GOP protesters have told TIME were led by hardball...
...Talk about the lesser of two evils. Or the evil of two lessers...