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...Democratic Senator Charles Schumer of New York plans to introduce a bill directing the Federal Election Commission to evaluate various vote systems and propose guidelines for adopting the most effective ones. Republican Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania is calling for a commission to do the same. A similar bill in the House is sponsored by Republican Jim Leach of Iowa and Oregon Democrat Peter DeFazio, who almost lost his seat in 1988 because of a poorly designed ballot. Because congressional candidates appeared on the same line as presidential candidates, 79,000 people neglected to cast a vote for Congress...
...elections all the time, and they routinely deliver victory to the management's nominees for the board of directors by huge majorities without any fuss. Only an election run by government bureaucrats would be handled so incompetently that it produces a close vote, let alone so irresponsibly that a Democrat is even allowed to win every now and then...
Rogow said goodbye to Dershowitz and hello to Christopher. "You want the counting to continue. I know," Rogow said, before giving Christopher the same answer he'd given Dershowitz. Rogow is a loyal Democrat, but he refused to play politics with the law just because team Gore wanted to rush ahead with the recount. His client is LePore, not Gore...
...Broward and Palm Beach counties ask the Florida Supreme Court if they can legally proceed with hand counts. Harris had ordered the counties not to; state attorney general Bob Butterworth (a Democrat) had advised the opposite...
...serious!" the Earnest Young Democrat threw himself back in the plush chair and stared at the Wily Old Democrat. Behind the leonine head and silver-white hair, a floor-to-ceiling window framed a spectacular view of Washington, the kind of view a $750-an-hour consummate insider can afford...