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...there many times before, but I've never seen oral arguments like this before. The fact that it brought together such an interesting composite of people - Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy sitting together, all the Gore children. And I happened to sit with Judge Burton, the head of the Palm Beach canvassing board. He's a delightful person...
...Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters relayed the news at the end of a very busy legal day: "We conclude as a matter of law that the Palm Beach County ballot does not constitute substantial noncompliance with the statutory requirements mandating the voiding of the election." With prejudice. Meaning end of story...
...Palm Beach County's unexpectedly robust Buchanan vote was the earliest hint of madness in the post-election haze of November 8. Thousands of voters complained that the ballot's confusing design had led them to punch hole No. 4, for Pat Buchanan and Ezola Foster (odd, certainly, for a heavily Jewish community) instead of hole No. 5, for Gore and Joe Lieberman. (The ballot design had been approved by a Democrat, who was trying to enlarge the type for the benefit of those same largely elderly voters...
...past three weeks while the rest of the Bush-Gore war slogged though one court or another. In his first nationally televised "offer" to Bush, Gore took the issue off the table, but Bush turned up his nose. And the issue continued to percolate in the courts, first in Palm Beach - where five judges recused themselves from the case - then in Leon County, finally landing in the Florida Supreme Court. Ticking, ticking, ticking, ready to blow...
...then, to paraphrase that Palm Beach sleeper hit Pat Buchanan, you can argue...