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...Making a move unprecedented in Florida history doesn't seem to trouble Republican legislators; they claim they'd be restoring order to a process gone mad. Democrats insist the Republicans, who control the House 77-43 and the Senate 25-15, are crazy with power - and will have hell to pay from the voters if they go through with the appointment and Jeb Bush signs off on it. (Republicans gently point out that it's Floridians that put them in charge in the first place; Democrats say that was then and this...
...general, shareholders don't even know they have voted, since even the decision to let someone else decide is made on their behalf by mutual-fund and pension-fund managers. Obviously, huge blocks of votes are easier to count than individual ballots. Only the government would think to insist that every voter cast his or her own individual ballot, thereby making the process of counting them so needlessly onerous and prone to error...
...Both sides file briefs in the Federal Court of Appeals in Atlanta. Bush's team reiterates its case that hand counts are unconstitutional; Gore's team continues to insist that federal courts have no say in the matter...
...also on Wednesday that Jesse Jackson flew to Miami from Gore's campaign headquarters in Nashville, Tenn. Jackson was quick to insist that the issue was "not about black and white, it's about wrong and right," but his presence helped point up another angle to the Democratic challenge: complaints of what some black voters believed were subtle forms of racial intimidation, such as the police roadblock that was set up on voting day about a mile from a minority-neighborhood polling place in rural Wakulla County...
...used to insist that I'd one day buy a Porsche even if it meant living in it, so I was grateful to learn that the seats proved comfortable for both driving and sleeping. The seats were so plush that after 48 hours, another driver actually cured himself of a backache. No comment on what actually caused...