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Memoirs of a chad war veteran Several of Ohio's elected officials were involved in the Florida chad wars, mostly as observers and commentators. But Richard Cordray, a Columbus attorney, former Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate and Ohio attorney general, was in the trenches. Cordray, who clerked for former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Byron R. White, was on Vice President Al Gore's legal squad. And when the high court sent the Florida ballot recount case back to the Florida Supreme Court Tuesday, saying only a state-wide recount would be fair, Cordray and the rest of the legal eagles broke out another ...

To use Al Gore's own words "A vote is a not just a piece of paper, a vote is a human voice..." Using this analogy, the voices that were spoken plain and clear were counted and recounted. There were many more voices that were not plain and clear. There were soft whispers. These were the hanging chads that were counted in Volusia, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. Only a few of the whispers were counted in Dade County and none of the whispers were counted anywhere else in Florida. A special effort was made to count dimples in Broward County. ...