Word: intentionalism
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Stad said the Florida Supreme Court ruled that they wanted the intent of the voter to be determined, but did not give enough time for recounts to be carried...
...answer for Miami-Dade County, and all of Florida, is for all ballots which show clear voter intent to be counted. Only then can the winner of Florida's electoral votes be decided with certainty. We have suffered for Bush's miscalculation not to support a full recount. Only when the correct decision of manually counting votes was made did the Bush team understand they had missed the opportunity to recount heavily Republican counties and took to protesting Gore's legal actions through a public-relations smear campaign...
...acceptance speech after Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris certified his 537-vote victory in Florida. But look at his choices in this post-election Mr. President pageant: spend the next five days as a lowly candidate or make them work for you as a putative president-elect, intent on beginning the delicate work of reuniting a divided nation...
...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...
...Voter intent, indeed...