November 23, 2000

Court Allows Miami-Dade Count to End
By Catherine Wilson / The Associated Press
MIAMI (AP) - A state appeals court Wednesday night upheld a decision by an exhausted Miami-Dade election board to drop its manual recount, an attorney for the board said. Democrats promised a state high court appeal. The board decided to stop counting votes just hours after it agreed to count only disputed ballots to save time. Murray A. Greenberg, a lawyer for the election canvassing board, said a state appeals court turned down a bid by Democrats to force the board and vote counters to get back to work.

Florida Speaker Feeney: Support
Building for Legislative Intervention
By Carl Limbacher / NewsMax.com
Less than a day after the Florida Supreme Court ruled that Secretary of State Katherine Harris must extend the deadline for hand recounts before certifying the state's presidential election winner, Florida's Speaker of the House Tom Feeney announced that he was considering intervening in the election crisis. "There is increasingly compelling evidence of widespread mischief, human error, vote and ballot manipulation in the manual recount process," Feeney told reporters Wednesday afternoon. "One of the reasons the Florida legislature was so clear in having a very definite deadline set out in statute, which the court has decided to ignore, is to make certain we never had to be in a position where you had the charade that is going on now."

Gore Challenges Miami-Dade Move to Halt Recount
Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The campaign of Democrat Al Gore said on Wednesday that it would immediately seek to overturn the Miami-Dade County decision not to resume a recount of presidential ballots, a move which could jeopardize Gore's hopes for the White House. Campaign manager William Daley told reporters outside the vice president's residence in Washington, ``We will immediately be seeking an order directing the Dade County Board of Canvassers to resume the manual recount.''

Oral Arguments in Brevard County Suit Set for Next Week
By Stephan Archer / NewsMax.com
Oral arguments in a lawsuit filed in the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals by Brevard County Bush voters could be heard as early as next Wednesday, NewsMax.com has learned. The voters' lawsuit, Touchston vs. McDermott, is separate but similar to the Bush campaign lawsuit, Siegel vs. LePore, which is also before the 11th Circuit in Atlanta. In the lawsuit, three Brevard County voters argue that Florida law, under which manual recounts are being conducted, violates their constitutional rights.

Cheney Expects Full, Rapid Recovery From Heart Procedure
By Mitchell Prothero And Kathy Gambrell / UPI
WASHINGTON (UPI) - Republican Vice Presidential candidate Richard Cheney should recover completely and rapidly from a minor heart attack, doctors at George Washington University Medical Center said Wednesday. Senior Republicans immediately expressed confidence that Cheney will be able to carry out his duties should the yet-unresolved election make him vice president-elect.

Nasdaq Suffers 5th Straight Loss
UPI
NEW YORK, (UPI) - Disappointing results in the tech sector and the seesaw in Florida over the presidential election sent the Nasdaq down for the fifth straight session Wednesday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average went down as well.

Wis. Gov.: Bush Doesn't Want Recount
The Associated Press
MADISON, Wis. (AP) - George W. Bush will not request a presidential election recount in Wisconsin, where an unofficial tally shows he lost to Vice President Al Gore by more than 5,000 votes, campaign chairman Don Evans said Wednesday. ``The race there was indeed close, but Gov. Bush will do his part to help bring this election to a conclusion,'' Evans said.

Editorial Cartoon: Military Votes
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Editorial Cartoon: Military Ballot Box
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A Coup In Tallahassee
New York Post
It took two weeks and a breathtaking repudiation of the rule of law, but it looks like Al Gore finally grabbed the brass ring. God bless him, because if the multifaceted assault on any reasonable definition of fairness handed down by Florida's highest court last night stands - and if Gore goes on to win the White House - he's going to have to govern. And that won't be easy. Because what happened last night in Tallahassee - again, if it stands - was a coup d'etat. The Florida Legislature - as a matter of law - long ago established a deadline for the certification of election results in the Sunshine State. That deadline was crystal clear going into the election: Seven days after Election Day. This year's certification date - Nov. 14, 2000 - did not meet the needs of Al Gore and the Democrat Party. So the Florida Supreme Court set a new date: Nov. 26, 2000.

Florida Supremes Disenfranchise Voters!
By Rich Lowry / The National Review
If we needed any more proof of the utter arbitrariness of the Florida Supreme Court decision yesterday, the news today that the Miami-Dade canvassing board will not proceed with a hand recount provides it. As should have been clear from the beginning, there needs to be some deadline for counting an election. This is why the Florida legislature provided one in the law.

Florida's So-Called Supreme Court: No Justice
By Jack Thompson / NewsMax.com
I am a lawyer licensed by the Florida Supreme Court to practice law. I now write a sentence that subjects me to its discipline. It is this: "Florida Supreme Court Justice" is the newest oxymoron.

Trying To Make Some Sense Of It All
By Thomas L. Jipping / NewsMax.com
Here are my top-10 things in this presidential election debacle that I just don't get.

New Bush Rallies across the U.S.!!
Stop The Recounts
What a great weekend of rallies! We turned out to say we would not stand by and let this election be stolen from us!

Bush: 'Court Rewrote the Law'
NewsMax.com
TALLAHASSEE -- Republican Texas Gov. George W. Bush blasted the Florida Supreme Court for having "changed the rules" two weeks after Election Day, and some Florida legislators said they would consider calling a special session to try to nullify the court's ruling. Bush said the court usurped the authority of Florida election officials and improperly changed state law. Bush now plans to appeal the Fla. Court's decision to the United States Supreme Court on the grounds that the Fla. Court violated the separation of powers requirement of the U.S. Constitution.

ABC Announces New Election Guideline
By Frazier Moore / The Associated Press
NEW YORK (AP) - While ballot recounts continued Wednesday, ABC News announced guidelines meant to avert the sort of faulty projections it made with other networks giving Al Gore then George W. Bush Florida's 25 electoral votes in the presidential race.

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