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...obligation on the counties to act when a sample manual recount indicates an error in vote tabulation that could affect the outcome of the election. And among the options given to counties is manually recounting all the ballots. In a county such as Miami-Dade, where 653,963 punch-card ballots were cast, it may not be possible to set up the procedures, recruit the staff and the Republican and Democratic observers, and then complete the painstaking and delicate work of a hand recount within seven days. Harris has no discretion, the Democrats...
...Palm Beach County, the manual counting of 462,000 is just beginning while the butterfly-shaped fight over 29,000 rejected ballots - 19,000 for double-punching, 10,000 for no punch at all, who knows how many for Buchanan when they meant Gore - lies in wait as a legal wild card. (And in GOP-heavy Seminole County, other judicial madnesses - an allegation that Republican get-out-the-absentee-vote drivers did too much of voters' registration work for them. Ruling due Monday...
...know if Yale's recent losses have been a fluke or not, but this a good team," Rose said. "They have a stingy defense and their offense doesn't turn over the ball much. They pack some punch, and I think this is going to be one of those Harvard-Yale games that goes right down to the wire...
...idea of sampling threatening and intolerable and downright unconstitutional. They claim that the constitution means counting every person in the flesh, not some fancy statistical model put together by statisticians and sociologists to imagine people who may not actually exist. And who, if they did really exist, would probably punch a hole for Al Gore...
...machine or hand or personal visits with candy and flowers. The Democrats yearn for something close to the Platonic ideal of counting everybody, whereas the Republicans are more laissez-faire about it; their attitude is, those who don't care to be counted, or don't bother to punch a hole with any precision, don't really deserve to be counted. Their notion is, You've got to earn that franchise by at least following instructions. The Democrats response is, the thought should be the father to the deed and if we have to read voters's minds...