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...more than 25 lawsuits filed in the past week and a half scare you. The legal morass is shallower than it first appears. In essence there are just three continuing legal battles: the Republican attempts to stop all manual recounts from going forward, the Democratic attempts to get counties to hand count their ballots and to keep these recounts going, and the struggle of some Florida citizens to force a new election in Palm Beach County. The Palm Beach cases are moving slowly, but in the others there has been a clear winner, at least...
...while the ruling was a victory for Al Gore, this is hardly the end of the story. Embedded in the ongoing mathematics of the manual recounts is the sticky issue of the now-famous "dimpled chad." Admittedly, the vocabulary of this morass has reached positively absurd levels. But stick with us here, because it's the concave marks of the dimpled chad that could ultimately decide this prolonged presidential battle...
...What's the latest news in the election morass? A:The decisions are coming thick and fast these days: Tuesday, the Florida Supreme Court upheld the lower courts' decision to dismiss cases against Seminole and Martin County Republican election workers. The suit was brought by Democratic voters who alleged the GOP mishandled absentee ballot applications before sending them out to potential voters...
...Morale Morass...
Helter skelter in midterm swelter. Run to a study carrel and grab shelter. Grades once high are falling fast. So, remind me why I took that class. Am I stuck in a huge morass? Or did the CUE Guide say I could pass? Now the Lamont air was filled with stress as students crammed under duress. We wanted to go to bed, but there were ten books yet unread. And as we tried to learn ID's, to avoid earning dreaded C's, we cursed students who were at ease the day midterms arrived...