Word: ballotings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...into the abyss. Without the hand-counted votes, Harris would surely declare Bush the winner--and Gore's options would evaporate. Bush would throw a victory party, and the calls for Gore to concede would grow deafening. New court challenges, like the one in Palm Beach over the butterfly ballot that led so many people to miscast their votes, would seem like spiteful attempts to delay the inevitable. Late last week, sources told TIME, Daley and Christopher quietly informed the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, that if Gore couldn...
...much he trusts the people. To compound the problem, it emerged that in 1997 Bush signed a law saying that in close Texas elections, manual recounts are preferable to electronic recounts; Texas law even specifies that hanging and dimpled chads--punch-card holes still partly attached to the ballot or merely dented--should be counted. Gore would be delighted to abide by Texas rules in Florida...
...easel for scrawling ideas and his two sets of laptops and phones--Gore also has time to think about what might have been. If he had carried his home state, Florida wouldn't matter. If his get-out-the-vote people in Duval County hadn't given faulty ballot instructions to thousands of voters, Florida wouldn't be close. But the hand count is his focus; once it is finished, he will be able to move on. "Gore needs this," says a senior adviser. "He needs to know, win or lose." Reid recognized the Veep's sense of isolation. "People...
...Bush. The Governor spent most of last week holed up at his ranch in remote Crawford, Texas, far from the court battles and the ballot fights and the blizzard of chad, with no cable or satellite TV to jack him into the 24-hour news rush. "We want Bush to stay out of it as much as possible," says a senior adviser. "We want Gore to look like he's desperate, like he'll do anything to win." By contrast, the strategists depicted their man as the very picture of rugged ease, reading the new Joe DiMaggio biography, jogging daily...
...missed an opportunity to grab the slightest edge. Often, the embattled county canvassing officials bore the brunt of their tactics. In Palm Beach, where the crucial hand count was delayed for days by legal wrangling, Republicans tried to stall the process further on Thursday by challenging every fifth ballot. That same day in Broward, a county G.O.P. lawyer named William Scherer stormed into the canvassing room to serve the board subpoenas. "You are acting in defiance of election laws," he cried, adding that the board members "would be testifying in court." And in court they were the very next...