Word: broward
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...Next, the offer: "First, we should complete hand counts already begun in Palm Beach County, Dade County and Broward County to determine the true intentions of the voters based on an objective evaluation of their ballots." (Gore misstatement alert: Palm Beach County has not yet begun to count, and Dade County has actually decided not to. Broward, of course, had also decided not to but was forced to reconsider by the Democrats.) The results of those recounts would be added to final tally - and Gore drops all his lawsuits and both sides abide by the result...
Shhh! Don't tell Pat Buchanan, but the next U.S. president may have been chosen in Israel. "It's an amazing feeling, that we may be the ones to decide who is the next president of the United States," says David London. The 36-year old registered Republican from Broward County, Fla., has been living in the Jewish state for almost a decade, and his absentee ballot - along with some 100 others dispatched by South Floridian émigrés - may help determine the outcome of the U.S. presidential race...
...London's 36-year-old wife, Karyn, a social worker for the Israeli government, is a registered Democrat in Broward County. She received her absentee ballot on Thursday, November 2, and almost didn't send it in because she thought it was too late. But she dropped her Gore ballot in the mailbox on Sunday, November 5. "I'm really pleased that my vote made a difference," she says. "It's an overwhelming sense, especially in America where you feel very small, to now realize that my voice will be heard. It strengthens my belief in our democratic election process...
...After 2 a.m. the returns from two heavily Democratic areas, Miami's Dade County and Broward, where Fort Lauderdale is located, had cut Bush's lead for a while to as few as 200 votes. That was when Florida Democratic leaders started working their phones furiously, calling state attorney general Bob Butterworth, Gore's Florida campaign chairman. Butterworth himself was on the phone with senior Gore advisers in Nashville, telling them that the vice president should not concede. "You couldn't help feeling that something was being stolen from us," says a state Democratic chief...
...hole. A bit of cardboard chaff clinging to the puncture, officially known as a "hanging chad," is enough to confuse the counting machine, which helps explain how thousands of ballots can register a vote for some offices but not others. Of the more than 600,000 votes cast in Broward County, the machines found no vote for president on 6,686 ballots in a place that gave Gore 68 percent of the vote. In counties in which ballots were scanned by other means, the percentage was typically a fraction of 1 percent. In Pinellas County, when election officials removed...