Word: overturn
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...select the state's 25 electors. If the outcome remains in doubt as the Dec. 12 deadline approaches, the Republican-dominated legislature may attempt simply to select the Bush electors. A more radical possibility is that if Gore is ahead of Bush in the final count, the legislature could overturn that result and certify the Bush electors...
...lawyer on the Bush team accusing Gore of bringing lawsuits until he gets the result he wants. What an accusation! This is at a time when Bush has just taken a state-election dispute to the U.S. Supreme Court. Bush, more than Gore, has been trying to overturn laws as written with fanciful constitutional arguments. Both sides are pursuing all their legal options with a vengeance. But apparently when Bush does it, he's vindicating the rule of law. When Gore does it, he's trying to change the rules...
...insurance policy" to make sure it's George W. Bush's electors who go north to D.C. and Bush that follows them. They say that Bush's slate was already filed in Washington after Sunday's certification, and that the only reason Republicans want to do this is to overturn an imminent Gore win in the courts...
...Gore's effort to overturn the result of the presidential election in Florida was dealt a severe blow on Monday afternoon when Leon County Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls refused to order the hand recounts sued for by the vice president. First, said Judge Sauls, Gore's lawyers did not prove that election would have changed if the recount took place. He also ruled that there was no evidence to show abuse of discretion by the canvassing boards in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade or Nassau counties; that there is no evidence of fraud or improper influence in the counting process...
...past the legal deadline? Did it violate a federal law that requires that electors be selected according to rules set before the voting takes place? And most interesting, the Justices asked the Gore and Bush teams, What would be the effect on this whole showdown if they were to overturn the Florida court's ruling...