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...with a more subtle claim. A problem with the Florida hand recounts, they said, was that by conducting them in some counties and not others, the state was depriving voters in counties that were not being recounted of equal protection of the law. It was an odd claim - the GOP doesn't usually ask the federal courts to intrude in state elections - and an unconvincing one. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals noted in rejecting it, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution expressly provides that each state may select its presidential electors "in such manner as the Legislature...
...counting of 462,000 is just beginning while the butterfly-shaped fight over 29,000 rejected ballots - 19,000 for double-punching, 10,000 for no punch at all, who knows how many for Buchanan when they meant Gore - lies in wait as a legal wild card. (And in GOP-heavy Seminole County, other judicial madnesses - an allegation that Republican get-out-the-absentee-vote drivers did too much of voters' registration work for them. Ruling due Monday...
...latest news in the election morass? A:The decisions are coming thick and fast these days: Tuesday, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the lower courts' decision to dismiss cases against Seminole and Martin County Republican election workers. The suit was brought by Democratic voters who alleged the GOP mishandled absentee ballot applications before sending them out to potential voters...
...Also on Monday, Florida's GOP-controlled legislature met again to set guidelines for a special session to approve a slate of Bush-friendly electors - and both houses approved the procedures suggested last week. This pending vote has sharply divided state Democrats and Republicans - the Democrats claim the GOP is "hijacking" the election, while Republican lawmakers argue they are only working out an "insurance policy" to be used in case legal challenges are still pending by the December 18 electoral vote deadline. Tuesday, the Florida House of Representatives voted to affirm the Bush slate of electors. The state Senate will...
...signature) the Bush legal team filed a suit in Leon County court (where Tallahassee is located) asking that those ballots be reintroduced into the hand count. Several days later, the suit was withdrawn, after Bush lawyers were satisfied that most counties had included many of the overseas ballots. The GOP legal team maintained, however, that it was prepared to refile a suit if they learn there are counties which decide definitively not to reexamine their overseas ballots - and Friday, December 1, they did just that, bringing suit against seven counties and charging that all overseas absentee ballots, regardless of postmark...