Elections
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“butterfly ballot” issue in Palm :
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The vice president, too, went on
television to stress the urgency and 1
accuse Bush’s legal team of stalling 1
in Florida — at the same time fil- 1
ing briefs along with Bush at the 1
U.S. Supreme Court in Washing- 1
ton.
Bush and the Republicans “just
want to run the clock out so the
votes will not be counted,” Gore
attorney Jeff Robinson said.
In Tallahassee, Sauls began a
hearing late Tuesday to deal with
new legal briefs that seemed to ar
rive almost hourly.
A fast-paced schedule outlined
by Gore’s lawyers would allow the
Florida Supreme Court to hear any
appeal and issue an order, if neces
sary, by Dec. 9, three days before a
Dec. 12 deadline for the state to
choose its electors.
Gore’s team first proposed ap
pointment of a special master to
scrutinize disputed ballots. But
when the Bush lawyers objected,
Gore’s attorneys came back with a
plan for court clerks or judges in
Miami-Dade and Palm Beach
counties to conduct hand re
counts of some 13,000 disputed
presidential ballots.
The action in Washington,
meanwhile, involved a challenge
brought by the Republicans to
overturn a Florida Supreme Court
ruling that came down on the side
of re-counting votes beyond a
deadline in state law. A hearing be
fore the high court was set for Fri
day.
Gore’s team asked the high court
to avoid interfering in Florida’s
presidential re-count dispute, say
ing the issue “does not belong in
federal court.”
Bush attorneys told the justices
in their brief that it was the Florida
Supreme Court ruling that was “in
insistent with federal law.”
In Tallahassee, Gore is contest
ng Florida’s certification of Bush
is the winner of the state and its
lecisive 25 electoral votes.
“The need for the judiciary to
ranscend mob action in Miami is
dear and urgent,” the state court
notion said, reiterating a claim
hat the canvassing board stopped
:ounting ballots there because of
ntimidation by Republicans.
Bush attorney Fred Bartlit said
here was no such intimidation.
That’s the myth,” he said,
idding later that, “There were no
shouts, no pressure in the room.”
A different judge, meantime, set
i Dec. 6 trial date for challenges to
results in Seminole County, where
a Democratic activist has accused
The central and
indispensable witness to
these proceedings is the
ballots. They must be
manually counted without
further delay.
Gore attorneys
in a legal brief
Republicans of tampering with ab
sentee ballot applications and is
seeking to have more than 15,000
votes thrown out. If that case is
successful, it would cost Bush
nearly 5,000 votes.
In that courtroom, Bush attor
neys enumerated all the cases
pending in different courts and
contended they couldn’t handle all
the work so quickly.
“We have several other cases
pending, and although it may ap
pear that I have an unlimited re
source of lawyers, I do not,” attor
ney Barry Richard said. “I can’t do
three depositions at once.”
Circuit Court Judge Nikki Clark
told the Bush team: “I certainly
have an appreciation for the inten
sity of these proceedings.” But she ■
said the Seminole County case
could not be allowed to “fall by the
wayside,” and she refused to con
solidate it with the election con
test.
Democrats suggested that the
votes from two other counties be
tallied by either the court clerks of
Miami-Dade and Palm Beach
counties, the clerk of Leon County
Circuit Court or judges of the Leon
County Circuit Court, excluding
the judge presiding over the case.
“The central and indispensable
witness to these proceedings is the
bailots. They must be manually
counted without further delay,” 1
Gore attorneys said in their legal I
brief.
in Miami-Dade County, Gore
lawyers want a re-count of some
10.000 votes they said could not be
read by a voting machine and were
not hand-counted. But James Bak
er, representing Bush in the voting
disputes, said: “It’s incorrect to say
that these votes haven’t been
counted.”
“They’ve been counted just like
all of the other nonvotes, not only
in counties in Florida but also in
other counties across the United
States,” he said.
Aggressively fighting Gore ef
forts to undermine the Florida
count — showing Bush the winner
by 537 votes — Bush expanded his
legal team to include lawyers
Richard, Bartlit, Philip Beck, Daryl
Bristow and Irvin Terrell.
Democrats also are challenging
results in Nassau County, which
would give Gore 52 more votes.
Still unresolved were state law
suits Bush filed on Sunday, seek
ing to force Hillsborough,
Okaloosa, Orange, Pasco and Polk
counties to count a small number
of rejected overseas absentee bal
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