Word: palmes
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...mess things up, but, as we've seen, devolving power to state and local officials doesn't solve the problem of homosapient-ism, which is to say that human beings have biases, perspectives, quirks, and make errors. (Theresa LePore, a Democrat, tried to help seniors read the ballot in Palm Beach by making the type-face bolder. In doing so, she had to re-arrange candidate's names. That might have cost her candidate the presidency.) Good intentions, unstable consequences. A fudged solution...
Gore is petitioning the Florida Supreme Court to call for a new election in Palm Beach County, Fla., furthering the delay in the declaration of the next U.S. president...
...Myth" No. 3: That the "butterfly ballot" in Palm Beach is unfair or illegal. Phil Beck, another partner in Baker's Houston law firm, in charge...
...Palm Beach County: County election officials were up in arms because Secretary of State Katherine Harris refused to accept their recount numbers after they missed the deadline at 5 p.m. Sunday. Gore lawyers argued those new calculations would have helped their candidate...
...butterfly ballot appeal: At last, a bit of closure: According to the Florida high court, the infamous butterfly ballot is legal. While the plaintiffs (i.e., Gore and allies) claimed that the Palm Beach County ballot (which placed candidates' names on both sides of the ballot's punch holes) violates state election law, which requires that all candidates' names be to the left of the holes, the court saw things differently. Friday evening, the Justices upheld a lower court's ruling that the ballots are legal and dismissed the Democrats' case "with prejudice." (In other words, they rejected the appeal...