Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...absurd debate. In 1990, the outcome of a fiercely contested race for an Illinois House seat turned on dimpled ballots. After a recount established a tie between the candidates, the state's Supreme Court Justices personally examined 27 indented ballots and decided that eight of them "exhibited clear voter intent," a ruling that handed the race to the incumbent...
...seems to be able to decide what, if any, significance the dimpled chads carry. Do they or do they not signify voter intent...
...Florida high court made no definitive ruling on whether these marks were admissible, but they did refer favorably to a 1990 ruling in which the Illinois Supreme Court stated that an indented ballot could, in some cases, be perceived as an indication of "voter intent." With a nod to the existing Florida law, however, the Court also bowed to the ultimate authority of the state legislature when it comes to the dimpled chads: "We leave that matter to the sound discretion of the body best equipped to address it - the legislature...
...Palm Beach and Broward counties, election workers are setting aside the dimpled ballots into "questionable" piles, where they await further deliberations. And the final arbiter will be the courts: Wednesday, Palm Beach Democrats will go to court to try to force election officials to accept broader interpretations of "intent to vote" with regard to the dimpled chads...
...Maybe. Because this aggressive, newspaper-reading, activist court was in fact rather discreet about the one factor that according to the numbers will pick the winner: the dimples. Oh, they hinted at it, calling "voter intent" to be paramount and citing an Illinois Supreme Court case that read a dent like a vote. But these seven Democrats were obviously a little worried what history might think of their politics. So they passed a little bit of the buck...