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Attorney and 4 others sue in Broward - actions of canvass board in taking hand count are unlawful - wanting to stop count. There is no basis to do handcount - do not take from objective machines and put it to subjective people unless there is error - we proved in this county that the machines worked flawlessly. Hearing tomorrow at 1:30 in city of Plantation, Broward County

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta -- the next stop for the Bush campaign to halt hand recounts of Florida's presidential vote -- has already affirmed its right to intervene in an election. The Bush campaign filed a notice of appeal with the 11th Circuit late Tuesday afternoon preserving the Republicans' right to challenge a U.S. district court judge's refusal to stop manual recounts of votes in Florida. A three-judge panel could take up the matter as early as today. The 11th Circuit has interpreted the definition of what constitutes a federal election broadly. In 1999 a ...

NEW YORK Democrats have sent their own brigade of 29 volunteer lawyers to help fight the legal ground war in Florida that may well determine whether Al Gore or George W. Bush becomes the next President. The Republicans may also have sent several volunteers to Florida, but their effort has been directed from Washington, D.C. At 7 p.m. Saturday night, Morton H. Fry, co-head of New York Lawyers for Gore-Lieberman, recalled he got an urgent call from the Democratic National Committee asking for volunteer lawyers to come to Palm Beach County. He and the other committee head, Douglas Dunham, a ...

This Ruling was the best thing that Gore could have gotten. (note: this analysis assumes that Gore picks up enough votes in handcount) Let me explain: There were 3 things the judge could do: 1) Strictly uphold the deadline, period (effect would be Bush in White House, and no Dem complaints of partisanship b/c judge is Dem); 2) Judge overrules deadline completely (effect is Gore in whitehouse, but republicans can complain about partisan judges; and 3) Judge pretends to uphold deadline, but makes Republican, friend of GWB make the decision as to whether to accept the handcount (this is ...

Fox news just reported that Gore will litigate the Broward decision not to go through with entire-county hand count.

Fox live from Fl. Talked about how they are suprised so many Bush supporters showed up to Jackson's rally!! In background were people holding Newsmax.com signs. mega cool.

607 So.2d 508; 17 Fla. L. Weekly D2542 District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District. BROWARD COUNTY CANVASSING BOARD, Appellant, v. Alfred S. HOGAN, Appellee. No. 92-0034. Nov. 12, 1992. Losing city council seat candidate brought action seeking manual recount of election results. The Circuit Court, Broward County, W. Herbert Moriarty, J., entered order directing county canvassing board to conduct manual recount. Board appealed. The District Court of Appeal held that county canvassing board acted within its discretion in deciding to defer to count of tabulation equipment following proper calibration and testing in response to demand of candidate for ...

State ex rel Nuccio v. Williams 120 So. 310 (1929) Where there is no semblance of an attempt on the part of a voter in a general election of officers to express a choice by making a mark before or at the left of a name appearing on a ballot, there would be no occasion for counting or for making a special return that there was on the ballot no mark expressing the voter's choice. And, where the mark made by the voter in the proper place on a ballot is not a perfect cross-mark, but may fairly be considered ...

102.111 Elections Canvassing Commission.-- (1) Immediately after certification of any election by the county canvassing board, the results shall be forwarded to the Department of State concerning the election of any federal or state officer. The Governor, the Secretary of State, and the Director of the Division of Elections shall be the Elections Canvassing Commission. The Elections Canvassing Commission shall, as soon as the official results are compiled from all counties, certify the returns of the election and determine and declare who has been elected for each office. In the event that any member of the Elections Canvassing Commission is ...

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WE ARE GOING TO LOSE. It is really that simple. It is. We must face it and figure out how to handle it (and hope we are wrong)