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...Saturday, the situation became even uglier, as Bush's team hammered Gore over the rejected military ballots and stepped up its charge that the manual-recount process was "distorting, reinventing and miscounting" the vote, as Hughes said. Alleging that Bush ballots had been found in Gore piles and that biased workers had taped the chad back into Bush punch holes, the Bush team worked mightily to convince the public that the recount process is polluted beyond measure. Democrats, of course, disagreed...
...state supreme court will probably decide that argument. But the hand recount turns out to be an apt metaphor for how Americans view the election itself. They both come down to the same kind of scrutiny: holding the thing up high, examining it closely and trying to see where the light comes shining through...
...like Hamlet over every issue and a Democratic attorney general, Bob Butterworth, Gore's Florida campaign chairman, who once made a joke about the problem of convicts' catching fire in Florida's electric chair. That mix ought to make Florida a more cooperative place during radioactive disputes like the recount. But in reality, says University of Florida political analyst Richard Scher, it has made the state a dysfunctional place in crises--a warning to the rest of the nation, he adds, about the pitfalls of centrism. "When the parties are as intellectually bankrupt as they are in this state today...
...culture. She is proud of bringing international culture like Mexico's Ballet Folklorico to Florida. "You can't believe how hard I work," she told the St. Petersburg Times last month. But a high-ranking state Democratic official, who was on the phone with Harris when the Florida recount was ordered on election night, says he was angry about her apparent foot dragging "until we realized that it was because she really didn't know what to do at that point...
...that punch cards be abandoned everywhere. William Gardner, the New Hampshire secretary of state, recalls a test run in which just five cards were put through a counting machine three times--and produced three different counts. "It was not the most comforting feeling when you had to do a recount with punch cards," says Gardner. "We often had to decide how much light going through a tear would be enough to rule that it was a vote for the candidate. Even some winning candidates just felt bad about the process...