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...noted in my previous order, Florida law grants to the Secretary, as the chief elections officer, broad discretionary authority to accept or reject late filed returns. The purpose and intent of my order was to ensure that she in fact properly exercised her discretion rather than automatically reject returns that came in after the statutory deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Play-By-Play on Deadline Friday | 11/17/2000 | See Source »

...popular-vote winner a majority in the electoral college: award a bonus of 102 electoral votes, two for each state and for the District of Columbia, to the winner of the popular vote. Under this reform, there would remain a temptation to bring moral pressure on individual electors to reject the decisions of their states and shift their votes to the popular-vote winners. This invokes the myth that the founding fathers expected the electors to be free agents. The evidence is that the founders fully expected the electoral college to execute the popular will in each state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: It's a Mess, But We've Been Through It Before | 11/11/2000 | See Source »

Deema B. Arafah '03 said to be overly skeptical of Kavakci and to "reject the humanity of her experiences because of politics" is "unfair...

Author: By Tzu-huan Lo, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Turkish Politician Speaks at IOP | 11/9/2000 | See Source »

...surprisingly, Gore aides reject the scenarios...

Author: By Garrett M. Graff, SPECIAL TO THE CRIMSON | Title: At Gore's Ground Zero, Confidence Rules On Election Eve | 11/7/2000 | See Source »

Even though the words New York are in front of their name, the Mets are not urban. In fact, they are the hokiest team in baseball. Their mascot is some horror-movie reject with a smiling baseball for a head, cleverly named Mr. Met. When a Met hits a home run, a sizable, but not actually big, apple bobs up from something that looks like a magician's hat. The stadium opens in centerfield to display a huge, distant U-Haul sign. Airplanes from neighboring La Guardia Airport fly overhead every other inning. Then there is a poor approximation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Socioeconomic Series | 11/6/2000 | See Source »

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