Word: intentioned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Candidates who wish to run for the open slots must declare their intent to do so no later than Nov. 27, Burton said. Voting will take place using the FAS network's "ucvote" system and is slated to last from Nov. 29 through...
...Republicans are up in arms over this tactic, arguing there is no logical connection between a slight ballot depression and voter intent. What if, they demand, a voter who is pondering his or her choice between Al Gore and George W. Bush rests the stylus on the Democrats' chad for a moment and then decides to forgo the vote altogether? Should that hesitation really be counted as a vote...
...Florida is inconclusive with regard to the inclusion of dimpled, hanging and detached chads, Lone Star State voters need only create a depression on a ballot in order for their vote to count. (Thanks, in part at least, to Governor George W. Bush, who signed the "voter intent" decree into law just a few years...
...Democrats were hoping that the justices will not only allow the hand recounts to continue and order them to be included in the final tally but also establish a uniform methodology for hand counts. Republicans, of course, wanted an even more conclusive response to the nagging question of voter intent: They were hoping the Court would call an end to the recounts altogether and toss the ballots, dangling chads and all, out the window...
...George W. Bush) had been discarded due to bureaucratic fine print, protests erupted around the country. The outrage was fueled on two fronts. First, the procedural question: How, many dissidents demanded, could Florida Democrats demand such unerring precision from military personnel while simultaneously insisting they could infer the "intent" of a largely Democratic constituency just by staring intently at "pregnant" chads? Second, a sense of enraged patriotism: Congressional Republicans were up in arms over the Democrats' move to block the ballots, threatening everything from an inaugural boycott to a Capitol Hill stalemate if the obstruction led to a Gore presidency...