Word: rejections
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Friends and aides reject the notion that Clinton is primarily on a mission for atonement and redemption. Even the long-planned trip to Vietnam, the first ever by a U.S. President to the unified country and the capstone of his steady and little-noticed effort to normalize relations, has less to do with personal redemption than generational healing, say friends. "He feels the baby boomers never quite closed the circle, and he can do that," says one. Clinton himself, asked if he's somehow using his frenetic schedule to try to wash away his mistakes, answers both...
...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...
...then what? Instead of concentrating on the President-elect's appointments and agenda, we would see weeks of argument that he should not, in fact, be the new President. We would see the new Congress, whose first job is to certify or reject these votes, embroiled in furious partisan debate. We're talking about the de-legitimizing of the new President before he ever puts his hand on the Bible on Jan. 20. The spectacle of the most powerful country on earth enmeshed in a crisis-cum-farce would do us little good in world opinion--or in the financial...
...Florida Supreme Court might more probably hold that Harris' decision to reject the hand counts was arbitrary. After all, Harris made her decision before the votes at issue were tabulated, so she may be hard-pressed to argue that she really took into account all the relevant facts. Her critics say she acted before the votes were in for a partisan reason: because she did not want the hand recounting to continue, perhaps eroding Bush's narrow lead. But in her defense, Harris can say, as she has repeatedly, that she was just enforcing the deadline for reporting votes...
...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...