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Establishing such a nation-wide standard in the U.S. would raise issues of federalism and states' rights, but it should at least be possible to have ballots standardized at the state level. The Republicans' argument that manual recount standards are uneven is exacerbated by the fact that the types of ballots and voting systems can vary widely from county to county. Some areas, such as now-infamous Palm Beach County, still use punch-card systems from the mid-1970s, while others have long since switched to more reliable optical scanner technologies. A standard system will encourage uniform procedures and heighten...
...Florida court's decision rendered many pundits briefly speechless - particularly over one aspect of the ruling: "The circuit court shall order a manual recount of all undervotes [or votes that did not register one way or another in the vote counting machines] in any Florida county where such a recount has not yet occurred. Because time is of the essence, a recount shall begin immediately...
...however, SCOTUS agrees to take the case but refuses to issue a stay, or if the high court declines to hear the case at all, the manual count will continue. And that scenario, of course, presents a potential public relations disaster for Bush: If the hand counts go on, and more votes are continually added to Gore's column, it could be increasingly difficult for the governor to convince people he did, in fact, win Florida...
...Gore people must harp on the idea - as Bill Daley has already attempted to do - that the court's decision is about justice and small-"d" democracy, and not about a court with an ideological axe to grind. They must also attempt to persuade the public that manual recounts clarify rather than muddy the vote, and that they are the tried-and-true method of protecting voter intent...
...every step of the process, they did everything they could to simply stop that exercise," he said of the manual recounts. "Their tactic was delay...