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...Which is why the Gore camp's best legal argument may be not that Harris abused her discretion, but instead that she had no discretion at all about whether to count the hand-recounted votes. Florida law imposes an 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...
...show up in person to get my ballot. Helllo? That's why I'm an absentee. In any case, four other family members didn't vote so it looks like the vote's going to come down to all the absentee Indians...In terms of possible solutions to the recount problem, I like the one proposed on Conan the best: "Governor Bush is president in the red states and the Vice President takes the blue states." Hell yeah! Give the fascist Idaho and Utah. But what happens to Florida, you ask? Sell it to Cuba for a nice pack...
Originally, Hulsey says, she wanted simply to interview people whose professions were wholly unfamiliar to her and have them recount the procedures involved in their work. From there she intended to transcribe what she remembered of these instructions repeatedly, after increasingly long intervals of time, printing the results as a way of exploring the nature of memory, narrative and repetition. The general plan of action is still the same, but, after contacting a professional taxidermist as part of the project, she's become enamored with taxidermy itself-so much so that she intends the book to be taxidermic in form...
...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...
...Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments from both Gore and Bush lawyers on the issue of recounts: The Gore team argued for the immediate reinstatement of the recount order, while the Bush tried to hang on to their slim majority rule...