Countywide Manual Recount in Palm Beach
NewsMax.com
MIAMI (UPI) - Partisans waged a three-front battle for the White House on Sunday. Armies of lawyers prepared for a federal court battle Monday over Florida recounts, the Gore campaign rejected a Bush spokesman's proposal to settle the outcome, and Palm Beach County officials voted to begin a manual recount of all votes Monday. In a stunning development, Palm Beach County election officials announced early Sunday that they intended to begin a manual recount of all ballots cast in the county, after a sample of 4,000 ballots in four precincts begun Saturday added 19 votes to Vice President Al Gore's total. Unless blocked by a court order, elections officials will meet Monday to decide how to proceed on the full manual count.
A Blatant Conflict Of Interest
By John Fund / The Wall Street Journal
If you would like to know exactly how your next president will be determined, read this Saturday night dispatch from the Associated Press. After six hours of playing Carnac the Magnificent, holding up ballots and trying to divine the "intent" of the voters who cast them, the three-member Palm Beach County election canvassing commission completed its hand count of four sample precincts and took up the question of whether they had turned up enough "errors" using the new liberalized new standard to justify a complete recount of the county's ballots.
Democrats In Positions Of Control Over Tally
By Steve Miller / The Washington Times
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The outcome of the 2000 presidential election is now in the hands of Florida Democrats. "These are not people who are interested in the rule of the law," said Palm Beach County Republican Party member Sid Dinerstein, speaking of local Democrats. "They are interested in winning."
Bush, Gore Mount Legal Challenges
By Ron Fournier / The Associated Press
The legal skirmishing quickened Sunday in the overtime race for the White House as Democrats argued in court papers that painstaking election recounts have been allowed "since our nation's founding." Republicans said the practice exposes decisive Florida to political "mischief" and human error in Democrat-controlled counties.
Gore Camp Demands FBI Inquiry
By Daniel McGrory / The Sunday Times
THE FBI is being asked to investigate how thousands of mainly black supporters of Al Gore were given ballot papers that had allegedly already been marked for rival candidates.
Six Voters Join Bush in Seeking A Ballot Count
Injunction
The Sun-Sentinel
Six who voted for Gov. George Bush in Tuesday's presidential election joined with him and running mate Dick Cheney seeking an injunction to prevent ballot recounts in Broward, Palm Beach, Miami-Dade and Volusia Counties.
Gore Carries The Porn Belt
By Pete Du Pont / Wall Street Journal
In the Oct. 23 New York Times appeared a shaded map of the United States that bore an eerie resemblance to Tuesday night's results. In an article headlined "Technology Sent Wall Street Into Market for Pornography," the map shows by region the percentage of sex movies in the home-video market. Mr. Gore carried the areas with the highest percentages (40% on the West Coast and 37% in New England and the Middle Atlantic states); Mr. Bush carried the area with the lowest percentage (14% in the South), and they split the rest of the country that had middling sex movie percentages.
Bush Considers Iowa, Wisc. Recounts
The Associated Press
As the Bush campaign challenges Democrat-backed recounts in Florida's presidential balloting, it also is sending signals that – if the Florida vote continues to be contested – it may seek recounts in states where Al Gore appears to have narrow victories.
Iowa: Gop Takes First Steps Toward Vote Recount
By Jonathan Roos / The Desmoines Register
Republicans laid the groundwork Saturday for a possible recount of Iowa's presidential vote. GOP staff members met at state party headquarters to assemble names of county representatives for Republican George W. Bush should he decide later this week to request a ballot recount in any of the state's 99 counties.
N.M. Troopers Impound Ballots
The Associated Press
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. -- State police have begun impounding ballots from Tuesday's election after Republican lawyers asked courts to order protection for early voting and absentee ballots cast statewide, in case they are needed for recounts or review later. "It's not to impound all the ballots, but all the paper ballots — the early-voting and absentee," said Albuquerque-based GOP National Committeeman Mickey Barnett.
In The Eye Of The Storm; Election
Director Stays Calm Amid The Controversy
Steven G. Smith/The Albuquerque Tribune
Phones have not been Robert Lucero's favorite things the last few days. Usually, there's been a reporter, a politician or a campaign manager on the other end demanding to know how Tuesday's general election got so screwed up.
State Awaits Thousands Of Overseas Votes
By Paul Brinkley-Rogers And Tim Henderson / The Miami Herald
More than 7,000 overseas ballots have yet to be returned to Florida, more than enough to turn the corner for George W. Bush or Al Gore --although no one knows how many will actually be sent back or where in the world they will come from.
Time Is On Gore's Side
By Seth Kaufman / SelectSmart.com
Federal law provides for a detailed procedure as to how the Electoral College votes. Under this law, found at Title 3 of the United States Code, Florida must appoint electors to the Electoral College by December 12. If Florida does not meet these deadlines due to legal challenges or political paralysis, then it will forfeit its place in the Electoral College and the majority of the remaining electors will elect the next President.
Mail-In Votes Slow But Sure In Oregon
By Timothy Egan / New York Times
PORTLAND, ORE. -- There were no exit polls coming out of Oregon just minutes after the voting stopped on Tuesday, no complaints about long lines or hard-to-read ballots. Voters in Oregon, the only state to cast ballots entirely by mail, did not even go the polls -- in the literal sense of the phrase.
GOP Suit Avoids Florida Courts
By Terri Somers / The Sun-Sentinel
The Republican decision to sue Florida election officials in federal court appeared to be a strategic move to avoid state circuit courts and their elected judges, while also dodging the state Supreme Court now dominated by Democrat appointees, legal experts said.
Butterfly Ballot Flies With Ga. 2nd-Graders
Atlanta Journal and Constitution
School psychologist Ron McGee asked the 8-year-olds at Lee County Elementary to vote for their favorite Disney character, using a ballot similar to the one that has caused controversy in Palm Beach County, Fla. He said not one of his 74 young voters marked a choice they did not intend to mark on the ballot, which instructed them only to ''Check the box for the one you choose.''
A Nation Divided: Battle Plans
By J.J. Johnson / Sierratimes.com
The nation is divided, our Constitution is in peril, and both sides are furious. Something must be done about it. Our policy should be one of dis-engagement. We'll start with the financial support of this regime. If you witness with your own eyes and ears, an illegitimate government being seated; if you watch an election get stolen from you with your own eyes, then what moral and legal reason do you have to support it any longer? Answer: There is none.
Their Fight is Our Fight
By Colonel Dan / Sierratimes.com
Al Gore and his shysters are clearly stealing this election in what amounts to nothing less than a coup d'état. My distain for the Clintons, Al Gore and the Democrats responsible for initiating and perpetuating this and other scandalous debacles cannot be measured nor described in words yet coined by man. The leaders of that despicably corrupt organization are tearing America permanently apart in their lust for political power while showing a total disregard for the constitution, the rule of law and the people they are pledged to serve.
Gore, Hungry for Power
By George F. Will / Washington Post
So the Clinton-Gore era culminates with an election as stained as the blue dress, a Democrat chorus complaining that the Constitution should not be the controlling legal authority, and Clinton's understudy dispatching lawyers to litigate this: "It depends on what the meaning of 'vote' is."
Judge Not; Judge Kroll Shouldn’t, And
Neither Should Any Other
Jurist
By Robert Alt / The National Review
Traditionally, courts are very cautious about weighing in on political questions. The reason is clear: They know well the risk that they will become a tool for political gamesmanship in scenarios where candidates who could not achieve victory at the ballot box attempt to do so by judicial decree.
Electoral College: A Check on Socialism
By Steve Farrell / MewsMax.com
Because of all the brouhaha over the Electoral College this week, which one expects to occur every four years - but never to this degree - I have whittled away my hours, from dawn till dusk, every day since election eve, pouring over the issue, digging into the writings of the Founders, in hopes of picking up a few delectable morsels as to the what, how, and why of the Electoral College.
Time For Common Sense Again
By Thomas Sowell / Jewish World Review
Polls have shown, again and again, that nearly 9 out of 10 media people vote for the Democrats' candidates for president. So this is not a source from which the public is likely to hear both sides of an issue presented even-handedly.
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