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History in the making—slowly but surely
The race for
President
hinges on
overseas votes
and the fate of
Florida’s polls
By Ron Fournier
The Associated Press
George W. Bush’s lead against Al Gore
in Florida slipped to less than 300 votes in
a re-count Thursday, as Democrats threw
the presidential election to the courts,
claiming “an injustice unparalleled in our
history.”
Chaos reigned. It may take weeks to un
tangle the legal and political webs and de
termine the nation’s 43rd president.
“The presidential election is ... on
hold,” said James A. Baker III, the secre
tary of state in the Bush administration.
Gore wants a follow-up re-count in four
Florida counties and perhaps a new elec
tion in the Palm Beach area — ideas the
Bush camp said amounted to “politiciz
ing and distorting” the electoral system.
Amid a flurry of charges and counter
charges, Gore campaign chairman
William Daley said his party will sup
port legal actions by voters and support
ers who say a confusing ballot may have
led them to vote accidentally for Reform
Party candidate Pat Buchanan.
The Bush campaign fired back by stak
ing its own claim to a Florida victory and
questioning Gore’s motives. Still, Repub
licans eyed re-counts elsewhere in case
Gore prevails in Florida, raising the
specter of a lengthy, multistate battle.
“One of the options that they seem to
be looking at is new elections. Our dem
ocratic process calls for a vote on Elec
tion Day - it does not call for us to con
tinue voting until someone likes the
outcome,” Bush campaign chairman
Don Evans said in Austin, Texas.
Both sides dispatched dozens of
lawyers and political operatives to
Florida and geared up fundraising
drives to finance what is exploding into
a post-campaign re-count campaign.
An unofficial tally by The Associated
Press showed that Gore had cut Bush’s
lead to 229 votes with 66 of 67 counties
recounted. The official total lagged be
hind, and Secretary of State Katherine
Harris said it could be Tuesday — a week
after the election—before the state certi
fies ballot results from all 67 counties. She
pointed out that it would take even longer
— at least until Nov. 17—to tabulate bal
lots cast by thousands of Floridians over
seas and postmarked by Election Day.
“Nobody ever said that democracy was
simple or efficient,” said election board
member Bob Crawford.
Turn to History, page 3A
Nader supporters optimistic
■ With the votes tallied, Nader supporters remain positive
and look forward to the future
By Andrew Adams
Oregon Daily Emerald
Oregon supporters of Green
Party candidate Ralph Nader are
resolute that their campaign had
a significant impact on the presi
dential election, despite Nader’s
failed attempt to get 5 percent of
the national vote.
If Nader had met that goal, he
would have secured matching
political funds for the Green Par
ty for future elections.
Some polls placed Nader at
just less than 10 percent of Ore
gon’s votes before the election,
but the latest results, with 99
percent of total ballots counted,
show Nader with only 5 percent,
or 68,175 votes.
Vice President Al Gore leads
Texas Gov. George W. Bush by
3,375 votes in Oregon, although
early returns during the past two
days had the Republican candi
date leading.
The results also discount the
widely reported “Nader factor,”
which many recent speakers on
campus said would throw the
election into Bush’s favor.
Green Party volunteer and Eu
gene resident Mark Robinowitz
said the election will not disap
point him, even if Bush, whom
he described as a “swaggering
dunce-head,” wins in Oregon.
“Personally I would hav *voted
for ‘none of the above,’ so I’m not
a vote away from Gore,” he said.
Robinowitz said Nader’s role
in the election was to place the
Green Party’s agenda in the na
tional spotlight. The party’s plat
form includes ending the war on
drugs and putting a halt to
clearcutting. The major political
parties routinely ignore these is
sues, Robinowitz said, and so the
attention that Nader and the
Turn to Nader, page 3A
Divided responses
By Lisa Toth
Oregon Daily Emerald
As tension continues to build in the presi dential
race between Vice President A1 Gore and Texas
Gov. George W. Bush, University professors dis
agree on how it will be remembered.In some previ
ous elections, the electoral vote has not reflected
the popular vote. Professors came to different con
clusions about the significance of the 2000 election
and how it will affect future elections.
Political science professor Priscilla Southwell
said the days ofthe Electoral College are numbered.
“There will be an abolishment or reform of the
Electoral College before 2004,’’ she said.
Southwell said an Illinois Democrat is working
on a bill to change the election process because the
race has generated concern about the Electoral Col
lege.
While Gore is leading the popular vote, a win
for Bush in Florida will place him in the lead
with electoral votes, which will ultimately de
cide the presidency.
“No matter what the actual output of the pres
idential election, no one wants to run the risk
of it happening again,” Southwell said.
History professor James Mohr said the elec
toral system is still effective because of the laws
Turn to Responses, page 3A
. Catharine Kendall Emerald
Churchill High School student Ryan Ritchey, a Nader supporter, watches election updates at the
Lane County Fairgrounds Election 2000 Celebration Tuesday evening.
Law symposium addresses Alternative Dispute Resolution
Coordinators
gather a panel
of respected
members of
the law
profession to
discuss
mediation
By Kristy Hessman
Oregon Daily Emerald
A hot topic in the justice system, Al
ternative Dispute Resolution (ADR),
will be the focus of a University law
symposium that will be open to the
public today through Saturday.
“ADR is an alternative to litigation,”
said Lisa Kloppenberg, program coor
dinator of the University ADR pro
gram. “The emphasis is mediation
from a third-party, neutral person.”
Kloppenberg said this type of medi
ation gives people the chance to talk to
each other in hopes of settling issues
outside the courtroom.
University graduate Gary Galton and
his wife Anne Marie donated more
than $211,000 to the law school to cre
ate the ADR program in June. The pro
gram educates students about various
ways in which disputes can be re
solved, including negotiation, media
tion and arbitration.
Part of the contribution will help
fund the symposium, which will in
elude five panels of experienced
judges and lawyers.
“The panelists for the symposium
are fabulous,” said Anne Aiken, an
ADR program board member.
Ninth Circuit Appellate Court Judge
Dorothy Nelson will deliver the
keynote address from 4 p.m. to 4:30
p.m. today.
“Dorothy is really the mother of this
program.” Aiken said.
When Nelson began to teach ADR at
USC in the early 1960s, she was the
only law faculty member who taught
an alternative dispute resolution pro
gram.
“When people would ask what I
taught they would say, ‘Oh, it’s that
women thing,’” Nelson said. “But now
it’s one of the hottest topics in the jus
tice system.”
Nelson will speak about the quali
ties of ADR and make suggestions to
the law school about how to provide
Turn to Symposium, page 4A