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...Supreme Court case, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board Friday, showcased more complex issues of constitutional law. The court agreed to accept the case after Bush appealed a Nov. 21 Florida Supreme Court ruling which held that Florida Secretary of State Katherine L. Harris had abused her discretion in deciding to reject vote totals that some counties wanted to include after Nov. 14 filing deadlines...
...Bush the winner by 537 votes. But even as Bush asked Dick Cheney to head a transition team and named Andrew Card his chief of staff, the Democratic faithful were primed to fight on--especially after Harris decided to leave out the results of the hand count Palm Beach canvassers stayed up all night to produce. "How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?" asked Al Gore's running mate Joe Lieberman. "Vice President Gore and I have no choice but to contest...
Gore is also convinced that his team may have found the reason so many Palm Beach ballots were clearly punched through in all the boxes except the presidential one. The canvassers were judging that oversight to be a sign of voter indecision and rejecting those ballots; but why would Palm Beach have five times as many such ambiguous ballots as counties that used different measures? Because worn equipment made it harder to punch that particular hole cleanly through, Gore supporters argued, which provided more grounds to challenge the outcome. Democrats have collected 10,000 affidavits from voters who said they...
...right to a recount than the Republican counteroffensive began--even though many states, including Texas, consider hand counts to be reliable. The judges who endorsed the recounts were denounced as biased; the exhausted counters were accused of attempting an in-broad-daylight theft of the presidency--even though Palm Beach County turned up far fewer extra Gore votes than anyone expected because of their stricter rules about counting dimpled ballots. Democrats were also stunned by Nassau County, a G.O.P. stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than the mandatory machine recount performed several...
...Reported by Timothy Roche and Cathy Booth Thomas/Tallahassee, Brad Liston/Fort Lauderdale, Kate Kelly/Palm Beach, John F. Dickerson, Tamala M. Edwards, Viveca Novak, Karen Tumulty, Michael Weisskopf/Washington and James Carney/Austin