Word: proceed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Bush saw it, the only reason he was not happily vetting Cabinet members was because the Democrats wanted to change the rules for deciding elections, and the Florida Supreme Court decided to let them. When the justices ruled Tuesday night that the hand counts could proceed, provided they were finished by 5 p.m. Sunday, the Bush camp for the first time felt some genuine dread. "I guess the rules aren't the rules anymore," said an ally bitterly. Didn't it mean anything that the votes had been counted and counted again; the state legislature had set a one-week...
...Richard reminded reporters that this contest could have been started on Nov. 18 if Democrats had allowed Katherine Harris' original certification to proceed on schedule, but that Gore had made a "strategic decision" to delay it. (No myth there.) Richard promised the Bush team would work as fast as possible, but with all the trappings of a real trial - witnesses, discovery, the whole nine yards - they weren't about to surrender their rights to due process with the presidency on the line...
...Miami-Dade County reverses itself and decides to proceed with a full manual recount...
...Broward and Palm Beach counties ask the Florida Supreme Court if they can legally proceed with hand counts. Harris had ordered the counties not to; state attorney general Bob Butterworth (a Democrat) had advised the opposite...
...Democrats sue Broward County to go ahead with a hand count (the county had voted against doing so because of Harris' directive not to proceed...