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...heart of the fight was those confusing Palm Beach ballots. Some 19,000 had been thrown out because voters had punched two holes for President; an additional 10,000 did not register any presidential choice. Hearing about the ballot's design problem, other voters in the county became convinced on Wednesday that they had accidentally voted for Buchanan, whose total of 3,407 votes in the county was three times as high as in neighboring counties with different-style ballots. Buchanan, never one to miss a chance to stir hot soup if it could spill on someone named Bush, went...
That isn't to say there's no election chicanery in our fair state. The odds of honesty prevailing in all 67 counties are slim, especially with the stakes so high. While TV news crews from around the world are encamped at the Breakers in Palm Beach, who's watching little Okaloosa County in the Panhandle? Not to worry, though: Cuba's Foreign Minister has offered to send observers to ensure a fair counting of the ballots. And you know they would be impartial, because the Foreign Minister declared of Bush and Gore that...
...through their own analysis to try to be the first to declare a winner. Little things can make a difference when every minute counts, and what they didn't know was that VNS had a bad sample in Tampa, some faulty data in Jacksonville. Plus there were voters in Palm Beach who told the exit pollers that they had voted for Gore, when in fact their vote had been registered for Buchanan...
...seniors in jogging suits are a little crabby over being called doddering geezers for voting for Pitchfork Pat, who longs for a Christian nation. There are jokes about our need for outside observers from El Salvador. But I haven't heard of any residents of the oceanfront towers in Palm Beach shouldering muskets. So far, the taking to the streets resembles a street fair, with retirees in walkers waving RE-VOTE NOW signs and hawkers peddling INDECISION 2000 T shirts...
...equity carve-outs, these divestitures tend to be IPOs of less than 20% of a business. The parent retains the bulk of the stock--and control--but often later gives that stake to shareholders as a tax-free dividend. Early this year 3Com sold 17% of its white-hot Palm unit in an IPO, then gave the rest to shareholders in July. The average carve-out does well. Palm has doubled since July, although it remains below March's mania levels. But parent companies tend to lag in this case (not so 3Com), probably because they have left a sexy...