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...Black said using the valid results was "standard operating procedure...
Initiative 419, the ballot measure by which they did this, reads "Only marriage between a man and a woman shall be valid or recognized in Nebraska...
...recount ballots in three Florida counties, a recount that was only partially fulfilled. Now they must decide whether a Gore suit to require that all the disputed ballots be counted - an action that was rebuffed by Judge N. Sanders Sauls in Leon County circuit court last week - is valid, a decision that could once again tip the election in favor of the vice president. Democrats, having been (mostly) at the favorable end of the court's earlier decision - and aware that the justices are, with one exception, all Democrat appointees - are hopeful that they will once prevail...
...Climate Change, the premiere international body of climate experts, in a draft of their Third Assessment Report set to be released early next year. The debate now revolves around two questions: How quickly will this warming take place, and what will the effects of this warming be? Both are valid scientific questions and currently the subjects of additional research, but they are not reasons for delaying action to slow global warming. Moreover, the 1992 United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which the United States and 185 other nations ratified, is designed to allow countries to weaken or strengthen...
...Thursday night, Palm Beach County circuit-court judge Kathleen Kroll issued an injunction that barred the county from certifying the recount results until a hearing on Nov. 14. In this initial phase, Florida law gives lower-court judges considerable power to decide if a vote is valid and, if not, to rule on remedies. The initial thing to determine is whether the confusing Palm Beach ballot was illegal in the first place. Democrats contend that it violates a provision of state election law that requires each candidate's name to appear to the left of the corresponding punch hole. Republicans...