Word: intentionalism
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...television audience got to watch it all live: the cross-eyed canvassers holding ballots up to the light under the big round magnifying glass, searching for signs of intent. Callers to conservative talk-radio shows made an issue of the fact that it was an openly gay judge, Broward County canvasser Judge Robert W. Lee, who was accepting ballots that were merely indented, not fully punched through. "They're casting votes, not counting votes," Bob Dole told reporters Friday, part of the Republican SWAT team of celebrity poll watchers. When Lee's team finally finished around midnight Saturday, he dispatched...
...presented by the Gore team showing him clapping and chanting with GOP activists outside the 19th floor counting room in the Miami-Dade municipal building. Even the preternaturally dispassionate Judge Sauls was intrigued by the photograph and asked Spargo a few pointed questions regarding the lawyer's whereabouts and intent that...
...normal handling can dent, dislodge or dimple parts of the ballot, let alone the vigorous handling inherent in repeated hand counts. You see, Beck seemed to be saying, if even the expert here believes there are marks on the ballots that are in absolutely no way related to voter intent, how can we ask non-experts to differentiate inadvertent marks from intended marks...
...Bush isn't wavering from his version of passive resistance, intent on present his jelling administration as far preferable to a perfectly elected one, and without all the moaning. Trial? What trial? There is still no cable TV on Bush's ranch. There were on Saturday, however, lots of politicians in barn jackets...
...technical truth of Brace's claims, Beck did something else - he goosed the passionate and pontification-prone witness into helping the Bush team with its backup plan. As Brace defended the integrity of some dimples, he got Brace to valiantly defend the abilities of canvassing boards to discern dimpled intent. Whoops. Boies, looking for another 600 votes, is also suing for a recount of the hand count in Palm Beach. If Gore's witness for his case in Miami-Dade turns out to be credible, he'll have done some work for Bush in Palm Beach. Beck even...