Word: broward
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sure there's plenty of corruption in other states that just didn't come up because the election wasn't close there," says Broward county resident Brad J. Hershbein...
...While Harris's numbers are still on track to be the official ones, the recount numbers are bound to start hitting the airwaves soon. Unless the Florida Supreme Court halts the recounts out of hand - almost unimaginable a day after they let them proceed - sooner or later Broward or Palm Beach may well deliver the news that the rerecounts have put Al Gore in the lead. And that's when the p.r. war gets really bloody...
...Broward began its hand count late yesterday afternoon, Palm Beach's recount is currently on hold pending legal resolution, and the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board voted 2-1 against a manual recount after a recount of three precincts only netted Gore an additional six votes. The commission sent a letter to Harris requesting that these six votes be included in the official totals...
...accordance with Tuesday's ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, Harris set a 2 p.m. Wednesday deadline for requests by counties that wished to pursue a hand count. Broward and Palm Beach counties, which are in the process of tabulating votes, and Miami-Dade county, which decided against a hand count, filed requests for the extension of Tuesday's 5 p.m. certification deadline with Harris...
...phrase: "complete hand counts already begun in Palm Beach County, Dade County and Broward County." This was a virtual fib - apart from some exploratory counts in a couple of precincts, Palm Beach isn't counting yet; Dade declined to start; and Broward was forced into it by the Democrats. But "already begun" was worth the risk, because it makes Bush sound like he wants to silence something "the people" have already started. And Gore closed it with exactly the words all Americans want to hear: "I would also be willing to abide by that result and agree not to take...