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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (87613)	11/25/2000 9:03:08 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Saturday November 25 8:48 PM ET Key Events of Presidential Election With BC-Recount Rdp, Bjt By The Associated Press Key events in the presidential voting in Florida: Nov. 8: About 3 a.m. EST, Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) calls Texas Gov. George W. Bush (news - web sites) to concede after television networks project Bush the winner of Florida and the next president. About an hour later, Gore calls Bush back to retract his concession. The race is too close too call, and a statewide recount begins in Florida. Nov. 9: Bush's lead dropping to 327 votes. The Gore campaign requests hand recounts in four Democratic-leaning counties - Miami-Dade, Broward, Volusia, and Palm Beach. Nov. 10: Gore's lawyers ask Katherine Harris, the state's Republican secretary of state, to defer certification of the results until manual recounts are complete. Nov. 11: The results of the statewide mechanical recount show that Bush is ahead by 288 votes. Bush lawyers file a federal lawsuit to block Gore's request for manual recounts. In Duval County, which Bush won, election officials say about 26,000 ballots were disqualified. Nov. 12: Palm Beach begins a manual recount of its 425,000 ballots and Volusia County begins a manual recount of its 184,018 ballots. Both parties begin raising money to finance the recount efforts. Nov. 13: Bush's lawyers fail to win a court order barring manual recounts. Broward County decides against recounting all of its ballots, and Democrats appeal. Harris insists on a 5 p.m. EST deadline on Nov. 14 for Florida's 67 counties to end the vote-counting. Nov. 14: A Florida judge rules that the state must collect all returns by Harris' deadline. The judges says counties can continue counting ballots and leaves it up to Harris to decide if the counties have a good reason to recount manually. Nov. 15: Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) rejects Harris' petition to suspend hand recounts. A federal appeals court in Atlanta agrees to consider Bush suit to stop manual recounts. Broward decides to recount. Nov. 16: Florida Supreme Court rules manual recounts can continue in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Nov. 17: Florida Supreme Court prohibits Harris from certifying results. Federal appeals court in Atlanta refuses to block manual recounts in Broward and Palm Beach. Miami-Dade County decides to recount. Nov. 18: Tabulation of overseas ballots boosts Bush's overall lead to 930. Gore asks the Florida Supreme Court to order that the results of the recounted ballots be included in final tally. Nov. 19: While gaining 1,380 votes to Gore's 750 from overseas absentees, the Bush campaign complains that a large number of ballots were thrown out for lack of an overseas postmark. Nov. 20: Florida Supreme Court hears arguments on when Harris can certify Florida vote and whether she has to include hand recounts. Nov. 21: Florida Supreme Court rules that manual recounts may continue and that those recounted votes must be included. The court sets the end of the weekend as the deadline for the tally certification. Nov. 22: Bush says the Florida Supreme Court overreached its power and appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites). Miami-Dade elections board votes to scrap its recount and Gore appeals. Republican vice presidential candidate Dick Cheney (news - web sites) suffers a minor heart attack. Nov. 23: The Florida Supreme Court refuses to order Miami-Dade County officials to resume a hand count of ballots. Gore asks the U.S. Supreme Court to deny Bush's appeal. Manual counts continue in Broward and Palm Beach counties. Nov. 24: The U.S. Supreme Court agrees to hear arguments on Dec. 1 on Bush's contention that the Florida Supreme Court overstepped its powers in allowing manual recounts to be included in the final vote tally. Republican lawyers argue in Leon County Circuit Court for the inclusion of overseas military ballots in the final vote total that were thrown out because of missing postmarks. Nov. 25: Bush switches strategies to get more military votes counted by abandoning a statewide lawsuit and has lawyers prepare suits in five counties that had refused to review their ballots - Hillsborough, Okaloosa, Orange, Pasco and Polk. Gore's camp says it will contest Palm Beach County's recount. Nov. 26: Harris plans to certify the election results about 6 p.m. EST.