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...Secretary of State Katherine Harris followed the word--but not the spirit--of the Florida Supreme Court's decision by certifying the election results available to her. The political nature of her actions, however, were paramount once again, as she certified the results without even a partial recount from Palm Beach County...
Over Thanksgiving weekend, the work of the Palm Beach County canvassing board--three elected individuals who probably expected an honorific rather than horrific job--worked tirelessly to count the votes of the county's citizens. Thousands of the ballots had not shown a vote for president due to a combination of imperfect ballots and imperfect machines. The canvassing board has already faced allegations of improper action over the butterfly ballot and an unusual number of votes for Pat Buchanan that Buchanan himself says were intended for Vice President Al Gore...
...voters who punched their butterfly ballots for Pat Buchanan in Palm Beach County on Election Day, some may have had a good reason to do so. It's Pat, of course, who talks about "securing America's borders," and the good folks in Florida are going to have a wave of border problems in the coming years. Not that Fidel is planning to send more desperate Cubans across the porous international border into Key West. He's too busy chuckling as Florida recovers from picking the 43rd president since our revolution--and the 10th since his--while threatening to send...
...State Warren Christopher--staring into the abyss. Without the hand-counted votes, Harris would surely declare Bush the winner--and Gore's options would evaporate. Bush would throw a victory party, and the calls for Gore to concede would grow deafening. New court challenges, like the one in Palm Beach over the butterfly ballot that led so many people to miscast their votes, would seem like spiteful attempts to delay the inevitable. Late last week, sources told TIME, Daley and Christopher quietly informed the Democratic leaders of the House and Senate, Dick Gephardt and Tom Daschle, that if Gore couldn...
...Republicans in Florida, like their Democratic counterparts, have not missed an opportunity to grab the slightest edge. Often, the embattled county canvassing officials bore the brunt of their tactics. In Palm Beach, where the crucial hand count was delayed for days by legal wrangling, Republicans tried to stall the process further on Thursday by challenging every fifth ballot. That same day in Broward, a county G.O.P. lawyer named William Scherer stormed into the canvassing room to serve the board subpoenas. "You are acting in defiance of election laws," he cried, adding that the board members "would be testifying in court...