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...court set the stage for yesterday's hearing last week when it ruled that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris could not certify the official tallies until it had ruled on the matter of the manual recount...

Author: By Christina S. N. lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Florida Supreme Court Hears Both Sides in Election Case | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...state court rules against Gore. I don't think he'll appeal. His brief didn't introduce any federal issues. If the state court rules against Bush, I think the Bush team will wait to see what the recount is likely to show before taking an appeal to the Supreme Court," Gillers said...

Author: By Christina S. N. lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Florida Supreme Court Hears Both Sides in Election Case | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

With manual recounts still incomplete, the Gore vote has increased by a net total of 96 votes. If approved, this would cut Bush's lead to 834. Recounts are already underway in the large, Democratic-leaning counties, Palm Beach and Broward. Another manual recount may begin in the large Miami-Dade County. If continued without disruption, county officials said they expected the count to conclude...

Author: By Christina S. N. lewis, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Florida Supreme Court Hears Both Sides in Election Case | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...Amazingly enough, there is a precedent for this seemingly absurd debate. In 1990, the outcome of a fiercely contested race for an Illinois House seat turned on dimpled ballots. After a recount established a tie between the candidates, the state's Supreme Court Justices personally examined 27 indented ballots and decided that eight of them "exhibited clear voter intent," a ruling that handed the race to the incumbent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Dimpled Chad Dilemma | 11/21/2000 | See Source »

...next line was between machine counts and hand counts. In the case of serious machine error, of course Harris would use that discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadline in the Florida Sand? | 11/20/2000 | See Source »

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