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...electors" by adhering to the deadline. Really? Then what about the court's own deadline of Nov. 26? It caused Miami-Dade officials to shut down their recount completely. According to its own logic, the court has disenfranchised thousands of Miami-Dade voters. But the whole disenfranchisement charge is absurd in any case. The plain fact is that any deadline must necessarily "disenfranchise" voters--or it would not be a deadline, i.e., a date after which otherwise legal ballots must be ignored. We must nonetheless have deadlines, or no election would ever...
...think it's probably safe to say that on November 7 more Floridians went to the polls with the intention of voting for Al Gore than for George Bush. The absurd butterfly ballots, the ridiculous punch card technology, the confusing instructions to African-American voters, all conspired against Gore and those who wanted to vote for him. Is that right? Hmm, no. Is that just? Probably not. Is it fair? Well, yes, I'd have to say it is. It's fair because those are the breaks. It's fair because no human system is perfect. And it's fair...
...Christopher and Daley, they had never been here before, didn't know the landscape, couldn't buy a map. They had never tried to win a presidential election that was hanging like a chad. And so they ran on instinct and adrenaline and grit, exhausted, their moods careering from absurd highs to grim lows each day, sometimes each hour. "It's peaks and valleys, peaks and valleys," says a top Gore operative. "We win every day. We lose every...
...That we'll always have Miami-Dade, which started too late for the first deadline, quit too early for the second deadline, and now has Gore's lawyers trying to force it to undertake a dimple count it never wanted in the first place, to remind us of how absurd this...
...while the ruling was a victory for Al Gore, this is hardly the end of the story. Embedded in the ongoing mathematics of the manual recounts is the sticky issue of the now-famous "dimpled chad." Admittedly, the vocabulary of this morass has reached positively absurd levels. But stick with us here, because it's the concave marks of the dimpled chad that could ultimately decide this prolonged presidential battle...