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...majority opinion held that Dec. 12 marked the end of the federal "safe harbor" period, when slates of electors could be certified without the threat of Congressional challenge...
...Hill & Barlow he worked in the company's brand new offices, at One International Place, a downtown Boston office building with sweeping views of Boston Harbor. Compensation is generous. Presently, a first-year associate like Goodheart makes $100,000 a year, and a discretionary bonus...
Rehnquist, Scalia, Kennedy, Thomas and O'Connor ruled the recount is impossible within the time restraints of the "safe harbor" statute in Florida election law, which requires electors to be chosen by December 12. The dissenters wrote blistering arguments against the majority opinion, maintaining there is a possibility for a recount before a December 18 deadline. The dissents included this passage by Justice Stevens: "Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year? s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation' s confidence in the judge...
...substantial additional work." That work would require the creation of uniform standards for vote counts, the Court explained, as well as time allowing judicial review of those standards. Many observers read that as an indication that there was no way to finish a recount by the December 12 "safe harbor" deadline that loomed just two hours after the court's decision was made public. Or did it leave wiggle room to get the counts in by the 18th? The Gore campaign could only cling to that last, faint hope...
...historic sayings, we have "remember the Alamo," "Remember the Maine" and "Remember Pearl Harbor." Somehow "Remember Palm Beach County" doesn't have the same ring. SHIRLEY A. MURTAUGH Signal Hill, Calif...