Word: two
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Throwing out the ballots didn't seem fair to either of the two Leon County circuit court judges who heard the cases, and overturning their decisions didn't seem fair to the Florida Supreme Court...
...Supreme Court is now all alone on Al Gore's whiteboard. In its first non-bombshell decision in weeks, the Florida Supreme Court announced Tuesday at 4:30 that Al Gore's two nukes - the absentee-ballot application cases in Seminole County and Martin County - were officially duds...
...Delivering the news, as always, was court spokesman Craig Waters, who read a statement explaining that while the court recognized irregularities in the actions of the Republican defendants, there wasn't going to be any tossing out of 25,000 ballots because two supervisors of elections had allowed GOP staffers to add missing information to some misprinted applications...
...two cases had been together from the beginning. They shared not only the essential issues but most of the Bush legal team, and the basic facts in both were never in dispute: Two Republican supervisors of elections had allowed Republican party workers access to two stacks of absentee ballot applications, in order to fill in voter ID numbers - left off the forms in a printing error - and save the applications from the trash...
...would require the creation of uniform standards for vote counts, the Court explained, as well as time allowing judicial review of those standards. Many observers read that as an indication that there was no way to finish a recount by the December 12 "safe harbor" deadline that loomed just two hours after the court's decision was made public. Or did it leave wiggle room to get the counts in by the 18th? The Gore campaign could only cling to that last, faint hope...