Florida Ballot Controversy

Background Information

A Note on the Voting Irregularities in Florida

Article, "Disenfranchised by Design"

Palm Beach County, Florida, Elections Commission

Ballot as Published by Florida Elections Officials(Note: The holes, which do not appear in this picture, are located in the center of the ballot, beside the arrows.)

Image of ballot published on Tampabaylive.com

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Ballot Design Issues

What's Wrong with this ballot?

U. S. News Stories

 
Judge to Rule Monday on Seminole Ballots

What Happens If Nobody Wins

Network Florida Court Coverage

Suit Takes Aim at Cheney's Residency in Wyoming

Cheney's Problem With the Consitution

An Evolving Legal Maze Tangled Issues and No Clear Exit

Florida Recounts Continue, Court Looms

Recounts Drag On; Court Battle Lines Are Drawn

Bush Cites Missed Cutoff; Gore Seeks Vote Standard

The Palm Beach Ballots Speak

Florida Supreme Court Gavel To Gavel Live Broadcast

To Be Perfectly Fair, Leave No Vote Uncounted

The Bush-Gore Dance

GOP Begins Jockeying in House on Fate of Election

No Skulduggery Needed

Keep Your Eyes on the Clock

It Could Get Worse; Consider These Scenarios

Miami-Dade Sorting Through Ballots

Counting Ballots Is Taking Its Toll

Overview of Electoral College Procedure and the Role of Congress
http://www.house.gov/cha/electoralcollege/electoralcollege.html
http://www.house.gov/cha/electoral.pdf

Now It Could Get Ugly: Bush, Gore Camps Devise Strategies to Win

Seminole County Tampering Suit Delayed

Judge to Rule Monday on Seminole Ballots

GOP Considers Lawsuit Over Absentee Ballots

Gore reply on manual recounts

Attorney General's reply

Broward County's reply

Lani Guinier: Making Every Vote Count

NAACP Turns Over Florida Report to Justice Department

Once an Election Problem Meant Bringing Out the Guns

When Neatness Doesn't Count

Beaver, a Proud and Noble Animal

http://www.msnbc.com/news/466882.asp

http://cnews.tribune.com/news/story/0,1162,oso-nation-82371,00.html

http://www.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/11/09/election.president/index.html

http://www.lycos.com/news/flash/assist/newsTop/vote2000.html
Bush, Gore Offer Polarized Arguments to the Supreme Court
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1588-2000Nov28.html

Bush vs. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board (Supreme Court case)
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/supremecourt/briefforpetitioner.fdf

Gore response
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/supremecourt/briefforrespondentsgore.fdf

Palm Beach County response
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/supremecourt/briefofrespondentspalmbeachctycanvbd.fdf

ACLU amicus brief
http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/supremecourt/briefforaclu.fdf

Newshour discussion of the Supreme Court case
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/election/july-dec00/law_11-28.html

What Bush's Litigation Teaches Us About Compassionate Conservatism
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/electionbeckman.htm

Gore's "Contest" Has Many Parts
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1280-2000Nov28.html

The Most Outrageous Bush Argument Yet
http://slate.msn.com/Readme/00-11-28/Readme.asp

New Instance of Absentee Irregularity Is Charged
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/politics/29MART.html

Florida Lawmakers Moving to Bypass Courts for Bush
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/politics/29LEGI.html

The Special-Session Gambit
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment112700e.shtml

Sweeney and the Siege of Miami
http://slate.msn.com/Code/chatterbox/chatterbox.asp?Show=11/28/2000&idMessage=6572

Miami's Rent-a-Riot
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/miami/

more on the Republican riot to shut down Miami-Dade vote counting
http://www.msnbc.com/news/495084.asp

Democrats' Support of Gore Intensifies
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/front/docs/democrats28.htm

Even Arm's-Length Allies Hastened to Gore's Aid
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/politics/29DEMS.html

How Manual Recounts Helped Bush
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/hand/

See Foot, Shoot Same
http://www.sfgate.com./cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/28/DD127717.DTL

Presidential Election Law: The Recount
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/election2000-0a.htm

A Short Note on Electoral College Majorities
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/note1.pdf

Who's Who on Florida's High Court
http://www.msnbc.com/news/492306.asp

Florida Statutes
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=Ch0102/SEC168.HTM&Title=->2000->Ch0102->Section%20168

McCauley vs. Bay County (unpublicized absentee-ballot case)
http://199.44.225.4/courtDockets/pdf/CV-00-2810.pdf

Bay Countian Protests GOP's Tactics Encouraging Absentee Voting
http://www.newsherald.com/articles/2000/11/14/lo111400g.htm

Bay County Declines Action on Election Protests
http://www.newsherald.com/articles/2000/11/16/lo111600a.htm

Bay County Absentees Deliver Boost to Bush
http://www.newsherald.com/articles/2000/11/18/lo111800a.htm

Gore vs. Harris Bush Objection to Plaintiffs' Proposed Expedited Schedule
http://199.44.225.4/courtDockets/pdf/CV-00-2808m.pdf

Gore vs. Harris Plaintiffs' Motion to Count the Ballots from Miami-Dade
http://199.44.225.4/courtDockets/pdf/CV-00-2808d.pdf

Seminole County's Double Standard
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/seminole/

Jacobs vs. Seminole County Canvassing Board
http://199.44.225.4/courtDockets/pdf/CV-00-2816a.pdf
http://199.44.225.4/courtDockets/pdf/CV-00-2816b.pdf

A County's Back-Room Goings-On Bring Suit
http://www.latimes.com/print/asection/20001128/t000114111.html

A Lawsuit in Florida Could Be a Sleeper
http://www.campaignwatch.org/refsup.htm#ws112700

Democrat Tests Seminole's Absentee Vote
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63774-2000Nov28.html

Racial Pattern in Demographics of Error-Prone Ballots
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/politics/29MACH.html

Democracy in Chains
http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0048/fridgeway.shtml

Voting Conflict Reopens Racial Split Among Democrats
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1622-2000Nov28.html

Lawyers Play Game Of Political Chess
http://www.newschannel2000.com/sh/election2000/stories/archive/election2000-archive-20001126-182532.html

High Court Will Audio Tape Session
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/ap/20001128/el/recount_scotus_tv_8.html

The Doctrine of Tough Noogies
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A63536-2000Nov27?language=printer

screaming, howling projection
http://www.nationalreview.com/nr_comment/nr_comment112800a.shtml

http://www.polyconomics.com/searchbase/11-27-00.html
http://www.salon.com/news/col/horo/2000/11/22/gore/
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=65000632
http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=65000671

Bush Won't Practice What He Preaches
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/333/oped/Bush_won_t_practice_what_he_preaches+.shtml

Getting to Know Florida
http://www.theconnection.org/archive/2000/11/1114a.shtml

Likelihood of Altering the Outcome of the Election by Recounting
http://www.math.niu.edu/~rusin/recount/

Jekyll and Hyde
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/28/opinion/28FRIE.html

Partisan Statements

http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/3750/bush.htm

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