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Topic: Florida Recount

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Q and A: What went wrong in Florida?
		Under Florida's electoral law, a recount is mandatory if the results of the two candidates differ by 0.5% or less.
		Assuming the margin of victory in the Florida recount remains very close, then both candidates are likely to await the outcome of the postal ballot.
		The man responsible for the vote count in Florida, Division of Elections director Clay Roberts originally said the recount should be completed by the end of Thursday 9 November.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1013552.stm (969 words)

	Florida Recount: Gore Campaign Quotes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At the heart of their motion [to stop the manual recount, Bush is asking the] Court to ignore the extensive, constitutionally authorized statutory process provided by the Florida Legislature for selecting presidential electors and ask it to intrude in a fundamental state matter.
		For the Florida Supreme Court to reach that conclusion in the presidential battle, another constitutional expert said, it would have to decide that Florida law said it was more important to obtain the "safe harbor" protection than it was to complete a recount to see which candidate had won.
		Florida Statutes required the Miami-Dade Canvassing Board to count all ballots in the county, given the results of the counting of the sample precincts.
	www.issues2000.org /Florida_Recount_Al_Gore.htm (16228 words)

	Presidential Election Law
		November 9: Manual recounts are requested by or on behalf of the Gore campaign under 2000->Ch0102->Section%20166">102.166 in Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade, and Volusia counties.
		On appeal, Florida Supreme Court prohibits Secretary Harris from certifying the election results - as she had planned to do November 18 - until further notice from the court.
		Florida Supreme Court upholds dismissal of Seminole and Martin county absentee ballot application challenges.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /election/electiontime.htm (1357 words)

	Florida election recount - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Florida election recount of 2000 was a period of vote re-counting that occurred following the unclear results of the 2000 US presidential election.
		The recount also showed that the only way that Al Gore could have tallied more votes was by using counting methods that were never requested, but that may have been applied if the USSC-mandated standards had been implemented, and which included "overvotes" — spoiled ballots containing more than one vote for an office.
		While some of these ballots recorded votes for two separate candidates, a significant number (20% in Lake County, for example) were cases of a voter voting for a candidate and then also writing in that same candidate's name on the write-in line.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florida_recount (280 words)

	BBC News \| AMERICAS \| Florida recount kicks off
		The new recount is the result of a crucial decision by the Florida Supreme Court, which on Friday ruled narrowly in favour of Democrat Al Gore's assertion that tens of thousands of valid ballots had never been properly tallied.
		Recounts are also due in any other county in Florida where machines failed to register voters' preferences.
		The recount is up against a deadline of Tuesday for Florida to name its 25 electors, who make up nearly 10% of the 270 votes a candidate needs to win the presidency.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/americas/1062546.stm (1057 words)

	Report: Bush Would Likely Have Won Florida Recount [Free Republic] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Bush's win in Florida -- which gave him the crucial 25 Electoral College (news - web sites) votes needed to capture the presidency -- came only after the U.S. Supreme Court on Dec. 12 halted a sweeping recount of undervotes -- ballots in which no presidential vote was detected by counting machines.
		Recounts in those counties were completed and included in the eventual official tally after the Gore camp, immediately after the election, sought hand recounts in four Democratic-leaning Florida counties in the hope these recounts would find enough votes for former Vice-President Gore to overtake Bush's lead.
		Key to the confusion in the wake of the close Florida vote was the use of punch card ballots which require a voter to punch out a hole next to their candidate of choice.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3acad726617d.htm (1444 words)

	An overview of the Florida recount and the U (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Concerning the issue of jurisdiction and the argument that the election battle in Florida was not a federal issue, it's worth noting that on November 17, 2000, the twelve-member 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied a request by the Bush campaign to stop the hand recounts in the four Gore-selected counties in Florida.
		During the first statewide recount, that is, during the machine recount, at least nine counties manually canvassed returns rejected by machines using the statutory "intent of the voter" standard.
		The hand recounts were not conducted according to a uniform standard, and two of the four Gore-selected counties changed their manual recount standards after the recounts had begun.
	ourworld.cs.com /mikegriffith1/floridareview.htm (4435 words)

	CNN.com In-Depth Specials
		The Florida high court had ordered a recount of all undervotes that had not been counted by hand to that point.
		If that recount had proceeded under the standard that most local election officials said they would have used, the study found that Bush would have emerged with 493 more votes than Gore.
		One of the most controversial aspects of the Florida election was the so-called butterfly ballot used in heavily Democratic Palm Beach County.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2001/florida.ballots/stories/main.html (1111 words)

	Online NewsHour: Florida Recount- November 15, 2000
		JIM LEHRER: The Florida Supreme Court refused to block recounts of the presidential vote.
		The federal district court turned us down in our request for a delay on the manual recounts because we thought that the process is unfair, gives rise to human error, gives rise to the potential for great mischief.
		Broward joined three other counties in meeting a 2:00 deadline set by the Florida secretary of state to explain why their amended returns should be certified.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/fl_11-15.html (1098 words)

	USATODAY.com - Newspapers' recount shows Bush prevailed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The Florida Supreme Court ordered Dec. 8 that each of these ballots, which registered no presidential vote when run through counting machines, be examined by hand to determine whether a voter's intent could be discerned.
		But his views on how recounts should be done, in the counties where they were underway, would have been potentially disastrous for him if used statewide.
		Florida is one of the few states that permit members of the public to examine ballots after they've been cast.
	www.usatoday.com /news/washington/2001-04-03-floridamain.htm (1959 words)

	Frequently Asked Questions: Election Day
		The full manual recounts requested by the Democrats in Broward, Palm Beach, and Miami-Dade counties were mandated by Florida law, 2000->Ch0102->Section%20166" TARGET="top">102.166, which authorizes a full manual recount of all votes cast at the request of any candidate, political party, or political committee.
		In accordance with this statute, the canvassing board first recounts a sample of the total county returns, consisting of at least three precincts chosen by the person requesting the recount plus any other precincts chosen by the canvassing board, totalling at least 1 percent of the votes cast.
		When Florida's votes were counted on November 7, the canvassing boards in several Florida counties reviewed the ballots that had not been counted by the machine count, and added them to the total if they showed a vote.
	www.failureisimpossible.com /floridafollies/faq/recounts_FAQ.htm (597 words)

	CNN.com - Close race triggers automatic recount in Florida - November 8, 2000
		The recount that was ordered Wednesday in Florida's presidential race was not called for by Vice President Al Gore, who trails Texas Gov. George Bush in the state by about 1,700 votes as of Wednesday morning.
		Florida law requires a recount if a candidate is defeated by one-half of a percent or less of the votes cast for that office.
		Under the law, Gore could have waived his right to the recount, but he did not since Florida and its 25 electoral votes are now the key to the election.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/LAW/11/08/recount.statute.pol.01/index.html (435 words)

	Florida recount begins; 3 in Palm Beach County sue, ask revote
		Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, left, reveals how close the state's presidential vote is to Republican Party officials Mark Mills, center, and Jamie Wilson at a 5 a.m.
		Roberts said the only Florida ballots that were not counted in the election night tally of nearly 6 million votes were those cast by Florida registered voters living overseas who were required to have their ballots postmarked by Tuesday.
		Recounts of votes in the presidential election began around South Florida today as election officials try to verify the razor-thin margin that will decide whether Al Gore or George W. Bush becomes president of the United States.
	www.ischool.berkeley.edu /~rachna/courses/infoviz/sentinel_ballot.html (2210 words)

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		The Florida vote was tainted by a series of errors and political interpretations.
		Under the rules of the time, then, the Florida election result was a statistical tie and a political judgment.
		If the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed the recount to proceed, its evident preference for Bush would have been fulfilled, without bringing disdain upon the Court. If Gore's attempt to limit the recount to four presumably friendly counties had succeeded, he would have lost his effort at vindication.
	www.rci.rutgers.edu /~gpomper/FloridaRecount.doc (1447 words)

	JURIST - Presidential Election Law: Florida Recount, etc.
		In November and December 2000, Dean Sutin edited JURIST's coverage of the Presidential election recount, and served afterwards as JURIST columnist and commentator on subjects ranging from Presidential pardons to law school accreditation.
		For more on legal developments during the 2000 Florida recount, consult the recount timeline, the FAQ Archive and Dean Sutin's answers to reader questions.
		IN MEMORIAM: DEAN L. On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, Dean Tony Sutin, Professor Thomas Blackwell and law student Angela Dales were killed in a shooting spree at the Appalachian School of Law, Grundy, Virginia.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /election2000.htm (516 words)

	Wired News: Florida Judge: Recount Votes
		Elections supervisors in some of the 15 counties with touch-screens had asked the state what they should do about a law requiring manual recounts when elections are particularly close, because the machines the counties use are not programmed to create a paper record of each vote.
		Florida's voting system has been under scrutiny since 2000, when it took five weeks of legal maneuvering and some recounting before Republican George W. Bush was declared president over Democrat Al Gore.
		In her ruling, Kirkland said the statute clearly requires manual recounts "when the margin of victory is one-quarter of a percent or less or when there is a proper and timely request for a manual recount."
	www.wired.com /news/evote/0,2645,64760,00.html (691 words)

	Florida Recount - 04/03/2001
		And an examination of the Herald's reporting during the period it was conducting the recount make it is appallingly obvious that the Herald deliberately embargoed highly relevant information favorable to Al Gore, while going to extraordinary lengths in an attempt to legitimize the Bush coup.
		The Florida courts had ALREADY ruled that such a standard was completely arbitrary, and could not be used by canvassing boards when counting votes by hand.
		The inclusion of this standard, and the prominent role it was given by the Herald, is an indication of the Herald's significant bias.
	pearly-abraham.tripod.com /htmls3/fl-recount0403.html (5564 words)

	Florida Recount Timeline
		November 15: Harris says she will not accept further hand recounts and asks the state Supreme Court to order the halt of manual recounts; Broward County decides to begin a hand recount; AP estimates shrink Bush's lead to only 286 votes.
		November 30: Florida lawmakers vote along party lines to recommend a special session to name electors if the election contest is not resolved by December 12, six days before the Electoral College meets.
		December 8: Divided 4-3, the Florida Supreme Court orders manual recounts in all counties with significant numbers of presidential undervotes; Bush appeals the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court and seeks injunctive relief to stop the hand recounts.
	college.hmco.com /polisci/resources/psn/students/timeline.html (1358 words)

	Florida Recount: Gore Creeps Up (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of the counties completing the recount was Broward County, the most heavily Democrat county in the state.
		About that time, the secretary of state's office in Florida announced that the margin between Bush and Gore in the Sunshine State was in the range of about 1,200 votes, with absentee ballots yet to be counted.
		The close race confounded polling in Florida, where Voter News Service and networks and news services using VNS data in figuring their projections initially projected Gore as the victor but then pulled back, citing problems with some county totals and saying the race was too close to call.
	www.newsmax.com /archives/articles/2000/11/8/100022.shtml (1541 words)

	Election2000: Florida recount unfair, court says
		The opinion, issued at 10 p.m., said the Florida Supreme Court's decision to order a statewide examination of so-called "undercounted" ballots was fundamentally flawed because there was no standard to judge whether a vote was cast.
		The justices agreed with Bush's complaints that said the state's recount was erratic and unfair because standards for counting ballots varied widely.
		The Florida court had said the agencies conducting recounts should count ballots based on their interpretations of voter intent.
	www.sptimes.com /News/121300/Election2000/Florida_recount_unfai.shtml (1617 words)

	Florida Recount - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		If you count dimpled chads plus the votes the Florida Supreme Court gave him, the vice president is leading Bush by 96 votes in the latest tallies.
		As the press begins to recount ballots in Florida, the Republicans cry foul.
		In some Florida counties, election officials voluntarily hand-counted ballots that machines couldn't read -- exactly what Gore wants in Miami-Dade -- and the governor came out ahead.
	dir.salon.com /topics/florida_recount (361 words)

	Roberts Gave GOP Advice in 2000 Recount
		Roberts' perceived partisanship during the recount has been enough for some Democrats to suggest that his nomination should be rejected by the U.S. Senate.
		Since the recount, the ties between the firm where Roberts worked at the time, Hogan & Hartson, and Florida's government has grown deeper, as Hogan & Hartson has taken on several high-profile legal jobs in the state.
		Both Feeney and one of the top lawyers for the Florida House of Representatives said Wednesday that the idea of having the GOP-controlled Legislature intervene in the recount controversy arose in the chamber itself, and that outside lawyers actually frowned on the notion.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines05/0721-07.htm (1161 words)

	CNN.com - Recount of Florida undervotes confirms Bush victory - April 3, 2001
		MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- If a recount of Florida's votes in the close presidential election last year had been allowed to proceed by the United States Supreme Court, Republican George W. Bush would still have won the White House, a Miami newspaper reports.
		The Miami Herald conducted a comprehensive review of 64,248 ballots in all 67 Florida counties.
		Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris defends actions in November election
	edition.cnn.com /2001/ALLPOLITICS/04/03/florida.recount/index.html (321 words)

	United States presidential election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Republican candidate George W. Bush was awarded Florida's 25 electoral votes after the last recount showed him having won by a razor-thin margin of 537 votes, thereby defeating Democratic candidate Al Gore despite Gore having won the popular vote.
		The outcome of the November 7 election was not known for more than a month after the balloting, because of the extended process of counting and then recounting of Florida presidential ballots.
		Mathematically, Florida's 25 electoral votes became the key to an election win, and although both New Mexico and Oregon were declared in favor of Gore over the next few days, Florida's statewide vote took center stage even as voting continued in western states.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2000 (2991 words)

	Florida Recount of the Presidential Election (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Gore's brief to the Florida Supreme Court, Dec. 5
		Florida's vote should be certified by December 12 (Nov 20)
		The above quotations are related to the Florida Recount.
	www.issues2000.org /Florida_Recount.htm (2089 words)

	FAIR ACTION ALERT: AP Rewrites History of Florida Recount (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Since AP was a member of the main media consortium reexamining the ballots, all it would have needed to do to get the story right would be to review its own reporting.
		Here's how the wire service summarized the findings at the time (11/11/01): "A full, statewide recount of all undervotes and overvotes could have erased Bush's 537-vote victory and put Gore ahead by a tiny margin ranging from 42 to 171 votes, depending on how valid votes are defined."
		The outcome of the recount of the valid ballots in the Florida election is obviously an important historical question, since the state's results determined the outcome of the presidential election.
	www.fair.org /activism/ap-recount.html (377 words)

	The Raw Story \| Bush Florida 2000 recount committee still owes lobbyist's former firm $320k
		Bush’s recount committee doled out some $8 million, much of it to Hill staffers who made the jaunt to the Florida battlefield.
		Four of Abramoff’s colleagues—all of whom have left Greenberg in the wake of investigations surrounding Abramoff’s activities—were foot soldiers in the Florida recount.
		Shawn Vasell noted that he was a “team leader” in Broward and Duval counties in his bio; Duane Gibson was photographed in the acclaimed “Brooks Brothers riot” of Republican operatives outside the Miami-Dade County polling headquarters; Todd Boulanger boasted of being on the Broward and Duval recount team in his profile.
	rawstory.com /exclusives/byrne/abramoff_florida_recount_bush_505.htm (1788 words)

	Bush Wins Florida Recount (Again...Still) [Free Republic]
		The four counties used punchcard ballots, which state lawmakers are considering eliminating in favor of optical scanning equipment for the 2002 election in all 67 Florida counties.
		The certified results in Miami-Dade were 328,808 votes for Gore and 289,533 for Bush, according to the Florida secretary of state's office.
		I suspect they'll shift to "Gore won the popular vote" and trust that their followers are too stupid or too corrupt to remember/notice that President Bush legitimately won the Electoral College based on BOTH the certified vote and the media muckracking recount.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a9a36841071.htm (1308 words)

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