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...well nigh time for election procedure to enter the 21st century along with the rest of the country. The signs of the time demand attention: The word "chad" has replaced "confetti" as the popular term for "small piece of paper" and thousands of votes, in counties from Palm Beach in Florida to Cook County in Illinois, were discarded due to appropriately labeled "voting irregularities" and double punching...
...tents--for a chance to watch the proceedings in person. Perhaps they weren't so different from the drivers who had paused at a rest stop off Florida's Ronald Reagan Turnpike the day before to have their picture taken with the Ryder truck coming up from West Palm Beach. But the court watchers got much more for their trouble...
...unprecedented challenge to the presidential election results before Judge N. Sanders Sauls or some other court proceeding could end up determining the election's outcome. The U.S. Supreme Court may even decide not to rule at all on the case George W. Bush brought before them, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board. But at least for 90 blessed minutes Friday morning, Election 2000 didn't feel like an argument between overheated parents at a Little League game...
...hearing. The Senators felt it was important to stage a bipartisan show of support for the American judiciary, which has taken a drubbing since the Florida Supreme Court ruled to extend secretary of state Katherine Harris' certification deadline. Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show...
...Dade undervotes - already separated out from the general pile weeks ago - were mere hours from yielding their secrets. Four teams of two circuit judges each had rolled up their sleeves first thing Saturday morning and promised to be done by nightfall, with the tough-but-fair vote-by-vote Palm Beach standard in place and the final number headed toward reliability...