Word: recounter
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...Tuesday night, James Baker was out first, just in time to get his picture taken for the morning papers. He had talked to Bush and Cheney. "They are of course very pleased and gratified that seven Justices agreed there were constitutional problems with the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court," he said, and thanked the legal team. "This has been a long and arduous process for everyone involved on both sides. Thank you, and good evening." A coded victory speech, and a very short one. He was still calling Bush "governor," and Bush was still waiting for Gore...
...ideal (count every vote, impartially) had a head-on collision with the imperfect (the machines stink, the recount standards varied wildly, and there wasn't time anyway...
...Wednesday morning he sent out the word that the recount shop was closed, and made it known that 9 p.m. was concession time - and the speech would not only be easy on the ears but, at 10 minutes, easy on the attention span too. Gore, of course, is writing it himself...
...There was his first major hollow political offer, back in November, for a statewide hand recount, and the constant and often eloquent calls to "count all the votes." He must hope we will remember those for their principle rather than their application, because neither was a request his lawyers ever bothered to make before a court. (By Monday's oral arguments, the mantra and its disconnect had even become a joke to Justice Souter. And to Boies...
...recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court is unconstitutional, the majority argued, because it addressed only "undervotes," (votes not counted by the machine) and not "overvotes" (those infamous double-punched Palm Beach ballots, among others), thus violating the Equal Protection clause guaranteeing the uniform treatment of all votes cast in an election. And let's not forget that the standards for recounting differed from county to county. Furthermore, Rehnquist et al. opined, any constitutional recount would require a drastic overhaul of existing standards - not to mention a time frame allowing for judicial review and legal challenges. Such "serious work" could...