Word: novo
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...sloppy activist compromise that only served to waste three weeks of national time. The high court of which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounded so enamored Monday could have done the legally simpler thing on Nov. 17: Allow Katherine Harris her first certification and allow Gore his de novo contest on Nov. 18. And give Florida's 67 canvassing boards three weeks instead of three days...
...novo. Start fresh and count the votes. Sauls, the Gore lawyers say, shipped the ballots all the way to Tallahssee. He entered them in evidence. Then he took the word of two flimsy statisticians without ever looking at a warehouse fill of real evidence: the ballots themselves...
...pass muster with its betters, and the Gore campaign has no concrete reason to give up its current, much more critical fight before that court for new hand counts in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach. Possibly they'll have to add Broward County to that list. Boies' sweeping de novo request covers more than enough votes for Gore...