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...only this scenario were unfolding in Texas. While election law in Florida is inconclusive with regard to the inclusion of dimpled, hanging and detached chads, Lone Star State voters need only create a depression on a ballot in order for their vote to count. (Thanks, in part at least, to Governor George W. Bush, who signed the "voter intent" decree into law just a few years...
...Scenario One:The Bush camp takes its case directly to the U.S. Supreme Court, bypassing the usual stop before the federal appeals bench. There have been reports that the Bush campaign was preparing a case for the nation's top Justices just in case the Florida court ruled against them. The U.S. Supreme Court would then have to decide if they felt the case was within their jurisdiction...
...Scenario Two:Gore wins the Florida tally including the "dimpled chad" vote, and Bush contests the outcome in court, claiming there was no "reasonable standard" for the vote count. The governor may have grounds for this argument, since one county views the pregnant chads as votes, while the others are setting aside dimpled ballots for review. If the Bush team can come up with a constitutional claim in their case, they could take their argument to federal court - even the U.S. Supreme Court, again assuming the Justices are interested in hearing the case, which, because it is a state matter...
...achieving U.S. targets - in other words, pay other countries to increase their own cuts - that could still prove to be a costly solution. So U.S. negotiators are demanding that the treaty recognize the ability of forests to function as "carbon sinks," soaking up carbon gases - in the best-case scenario for Washington, its existing forests and forestation programs would cover as much as half of its required emission cuts should other parties to the treaty accept the principle. But that may be something of a long shot: European governments and U.S. environmental groups are skeptical of the suggestion that...
...percent reduction in coal-fired electricity, gasoline consumption and other burning of fossil fuel. Europe is far ahead of the U.S. on the road to reducing its carbon gas outputs, but mostly through taxes on gasoline that push the pump price up past $4 a gallon - a scenario almost unthinkable for any U.S. politician contemplating reelection...