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...election has continued through the long weekend; despite the certification of results in Florida, no president has yet been chosen. Again, this week the courts will play a pivotal role in deciding how to proceed into murky, unexplored territory, of how to determine a result of minute proportions in a system built for landslides. We must still wait...
...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...
...cannot simply buy young girls a bra and expect everything to proceed as if they were having a typical childhood experience." JESSICA EDWARDS Denver...
...have been at least perusing the papers. (Justice Barbara Pariente, almost absurdly, even tried to nail Bush heavy-lifter Michael Carvin on Bush's Texas hand-count law.) At one point, in the middle of his "contest" argument, Carvin had to say whether the current hand counts would proceed beyond a Harris certification. "No" was not the answer this court was looking...
...While Harris's numbers are still on track to be the official ones, the recount numbers are bound to start hitting the airwaves soon. Unless the Florida Supreme Court halts the recounts out of hand - almost unimaginable a day after they let them proceed - sooner or later Broward or Palm Beach may well deliver the news that the rerecounts have put Al Gore in the lead. And that's when the p.r. war gets really bloody...