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...cast votes for them by proxy. In general, shareholders don't even know they have voted, since even the decision to let someone else decide is made on their behalf by mutual-fund and pension-fund managers. Obviously, huge blocks of votes are easier to count than individual ballots. Only the government would think to insist that every voter cast his or her own individual ballot, thereby making the process of counting them so needlessly onerous and prone to error...
Thirty attended one hearing; 50 squeezed into another. By early last week, Theresa LePore, the designer of the infamous butterfly ballot in Palm Beach County, had been sued no fewer than 12 times...
...right, so the ballot might not have been Madame Butterfly's best work. "But Theresa's not the story," argued her attorney, Bruce Rogow of Fort Lauderdale. The better story was that he found himself muscled and literally screamed at by attorneys and Democratic Party chiefs who were more concerned with getting Gore elected or feeding their own egos than using the law as a tool of justice. And some were in way over their head. "I got a call from one attorney who wanted to file an injunction but had never done it," Rogow said. "I told...
...Alan. Alan. Listen to me, Alan. Listening helps," scolded Rogow. He later said Dershowitz, who represents several Palm Beach County voters who couldn't figure out the ballot, wanted LePore to vote for an immediate recount instead of waiting for the Florida Supreme Court to say it was O.K. Not a chance, said Rogow. He and partner Beverly Pohl had asked the court for some much needed clarification, and they weren't going to tell LePore to do anything before the Supremes weighed...
Boies has had other voting-rights cases. In 1986 he got an injunction suspending the Republican National Committee's so-called ballot-security program, which targeted black votes. In Florida the tricky part for Boies will be keeping the public behind the Democrats. Jonathan Schiller, his longtime colleague and partner for the past three years, says Boies has no doubt devised a strategy that anticipates appeals and parallel legal proceedings while recognizing the psychology of the situation. "People need to leave feeling upbeat about the transition," says Schiller...