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...more importantly, the aftermath of the election has been educational for bread-and-butter citizens. We've all been in our usual social niches and heard the unusual conversations. Voter intent! The difference between legitimacy and authority! Electoral College! Democratic Republics! The public square has become a Gov 10 section. Lollygaging in the Square last week, chatting on my mobile with my mother (in Florida) about the election, a kindly Cantabrigian interrupted me, seeking to correct my nuanced view of ticket splitting. Everyone is talking about politics. Most people haven't gravitated toward established poles of opinion. They are weighing...
...Canadian Alliance has been the focus of media attention in recent months, with party leader Stockwell Day pulling media stunts to attract voter attention...
...this time starts with a constituency of exactly 50 percent of America - give or take a precinct. The entire American Yin has been radicalized against the whole American Yang. The memory of the 2000 post-election chadfest will revive an angry energy in 2004, which will produce the biggest voter turnout in history...
...same courthouse, Circuit Court Judge Nikki Clark ruled in favor of Al Gore's lawyers, who are fighting to keep a challenge to Seminole County absentee ballots separate from the vice president's lawsuit contesting the election. A Democratic activist has charged Republican election workers of improperly writing in voter-registration numbers on thousands of absentee ballot requests in heavily Republican Seminole County, and wants to have all the county's 15,000 or so absentee ballots discarded from the general tally. Gore's team is wary of such an argument, which runs counter to their contention that "every vote...
...Friday, Democrats sued the canvassing board in Republican-leaning Martin County, and asked the court to throw out nearly 10,000 absentee ballots. The charge is identical to that leveled against Seminole County officials: Plaintiffs claim voter ID numbers were added illegally to ballots. If the court ruled in favor of the Democrats, Gore could pick up almost 3,000 votes...