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David Boies, the lawyer who won Al Gore's fight for a recount, is an awfully rumpled sort for the permanently pressed Vice President. He has a steel-trap mind but the quirks of a little kid. When I catch up with him on Friday morning--after he has cut short his Thanksgiving break, flying back to Tallahassee, Fla., from his home in New York's Westchester County ("I had two turkey lunches, but no dinner")--he runs upstairs to his room at the tiny Governor's Inn to change out of his blue suit; it's the only...
Bush aides say Cheney is far more involved than Bush with both the transition and the postelection recount struggles. All the more reason for George W. to look so relieved when he appeared before reporters on Wednesday, a few hours after Cheney had been admitted to George Washington University hospital in Washington. He "sounded very strong," said Bush, who had talked to Cheney earlier by phone from the ranch. "Dick Cheney is healthy...
...Maria Cantwell's 1,953-vote lead over Republican incumbent Senator Slade Gorton survives a recount that begins in Washington this week, and if George W. Bush wins the presidency, the Senate will again be split--this time 50-50. And politics in the world's greatest deliberative body may not be any prettier than it was 119 years...
...Ohio in 1998. But a Texas statute expressly says a ballot can be counted where "an indentation on the chad from the stylus or other object is present and indicates a clearly ascertainable intent of the voter to vote." A 1997 amendment, signed by Governor Bush, favors a manual recount of disputed votes above a machine recount...
...person, one-vote cases were aimed at laws that expressly gave some voters more representation than others. Florida's recount law, on the other hand, is designed to ensure that all voters in the state get the same vote. A recount should not give a county's voters more or less representation; it should simply ensure that everyone who cast a valid ballot is given a vote...