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...well nigh time for election procedure to enter the 21st century along with the rest of the country. The signs of the time demand attention: The word "chad" has replaced "confetti" as the popular term for "small piece of paper" and thousands of votes, in counties from Palm Beach in Florida to Cook County in Illinois, were discarded due to appropriately labeled "voting irregularities" and double punching...
...Zealand. John Howells, an author of retirement books who spends five months of the year in Playas de Nosara in Costa Rica, has noticed too that lots of boomers want to go back to the pastimes of their youth. "Some dozen people have retired near my home near the beach in Costa Rica," he observes, "just so they can surf...
...unprecedented challenge to the presidential election results before Judge N. Sanders Sauls or some other court proceeding could end up determining the election's outcome. The U.S. Supreme Court may even decide not to rule at all on the case George W. Bush brought before them, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. But at least for 90 blessed minutes Friday morning, Election 2000 didn't feel like an argument between overheated parents at a Little League game...
...undervotes - already separated out from the general pile weeks ago - were mere hours from yielding their secrets. Four teams of two circuit judges each had rolled up their sleeves first thing Saturday morning and promised to be done by nightfall, with the tough-but-fair vote-by-vote Palm Beach standard in place and the final number headed toward reliability...
...statewide undervote count with a vote-by-vote standard, one more like Palm Beach than Broward, might just be as Solomonic as we get these days. It may not favor Al Gore as much as he thinks, but for him it sure beats losing. It may not endanger George W. Bush as much as he thinks, but for him it sure doesn't top winning. If the Supreme Court stays out of this, Al Gore's quest will be George W. Bush's too - a trench war between counters, between operatives, between politicians of high office...