Gregg Birnbaum
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PATAKI BOOSTS PA PARK PLAN IN SLAP AT GIULIANI
January 6, 2001 | 5:00amThe governor's press release contains not a single mention of the mayor - even though the city is providing $65 million for the project. Gov. Pataki yesterday gave a public...
STATE HIGH COURT REFUSES TO TOSS OUT BALLOTS
December 13, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Hours before the U.S. Supreme Court crushed Vice President Al Gore's White House hopes, Florida's top court rejected his supporters' long-shot appeals to toss out thousands of...
CANVASSING CHADS: A BEGINNER'S GUIDE
December 10, 2000 | 5:00amSome recount terminology. UNDERVOTE. The result when ballots that were run through the vote-counting machines registered no vote for president, either because the voter purposely didn't vote for president or...
FLA. CHAOS SCREECHES TO HALT HIGH COURT CAPS COUNTY TALLY PANIC
December 10, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - County officials across Florida yesterday dropped their ballots in mid-chad after a U.S. Supreme Court order stopped a statewide recount just hours after it got off to a...
COURT HANDS GORE A HUGE VICTORY FLA. SUPREMES ORDER RECOUNT AS W. APPEALS
December 9, 2000 | 5:00amFlorida's Democrat-controlled Supreme Court threw the election mess into total chaos yesterday by granting Al Gore a huge win - immediate hand recounts he hopes will boost him ahead of...
LET THE COUNTS BEGIN - BUT HOW? JUDGE REFUSES TO SET STANDARDS FOR BALLOTS
December 9, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - A Florida judge last night ordered counties around the state to start recounting tens of thousands of ballots in the disputed presidential race - but gave no standards...
WATCHDOGS BITE LAWYER BOIES FOR 'MISCONDUCT'
December 8, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - A conservative legal watchdog group has filed a formal complaint with the Florida Bar Association against David Boies - Al Gore's lead lawyer in the presidential recount battles....
FLA. SUPREMES CAST DOUBT OVER RECOUNT: DEMS FEAR END IS NEAR AS TOP JUDGE TELLS GORE TIME SHORT FOR NEW TALLY
December 8, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida's top judge said yesterday there won't be time for a recount even if Al Gore wins his case - and Democratic pols began to admit it's...
AL MAKES LAST BID FOR RECOUNT TODAY
December 7, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore's lawyers today will ask Florida's top court - for the last time - to recount 13,000 disputed ballots, while twin trials started yesterday, with Democrats seeking...
RECOUNT BID IS SHORT-CIRCUITED ; JUDGE NIXES GORE'S SHOT IN 2 COUNTIES
December 5, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE, Fla. - In the 16 minutes it took to read his decision, circuit Judge N. Sanders Sauls demolished every major claim Al Gore's lawyers raised in seeking to overturn...
BALLOT-MAKER SAYS RECOUNT OFTEN NEEDED
December 4, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore got a surprise boost yesterday when the inventor of the punch-card voting machines used in Florida conceded in court they sometimes don't work right - and...
AL BOOSTED BY BUSH BALLOT EXPERT ; CITES RECOUNT NEED AS JUDGE IS SET TO RULE
December 4, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - A Florida judge will rule today on Al Gore's lawsuit to overturn George W. Bush's win in Florida - after the veep's team got a surprise boost from...
GORE'S HOPES HANG ON EXPERT WITNESSES
December 3, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore's bid for the White House yesterday rested on testimony from an Ivy League math whiz and a voting-machine expert, as lawyers tried to convince a Florida...
DEM SUITS TAKE FLA. FLOP ; STATE COURT CANS RE-VOTE AND RECOUNT
December 2, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Florida's top court yesterday handed Al Gore double trouble, dashing his plea for an immediate recount and clipping the wings of his butterfly-ballot lawsuit. The back-to-back rulings from...
CHOPPERS IN O.J.-LIKE PAPER CHASE ON HIGHWAY
December 1, 2000 | 5:00amIn a bizarre echo of the O.J. Simpson low-speed chase, TV news choppers roared over a Florida freeway yesterday as they followed a yellow rental truck carrying the disputed presidential...
GORE PLEA TO FLA. TOP COURT: HURRY UP & RECOUNT!
December 1, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore's lawyers tried another legal maneuver to get a recount started yesterday, asking Florida's top court to seize control of their case because a state judge isn't...
GOP: MIAMI WORKERS MESSED WITH BALLOTS
November 30, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - George W. Bush's lawyers yesterday charged that workers in Miami-Dade County tampered with ballots as they prepared to ship them to a judge for possible recounting. The GOP...
JUDGE NIXES AL'S BID FOR QUICK RECOUNT
November 29, 2000 | 5:00amA Florida judge last night rejected Al Gore's bid for an immediate recount of selected Florida ballots - raising doubts that Gore can beat the clock to stop George W....
GORE SUIT: DECLARE ME THE WINNER - UNCOUNTED VOTE 'MORE THAN ENOUGH'
November 28, 2000 | 5:00amTALLAHASSEE - Al Gore was illegally denied more than 1,800 votes cast for him in Florida - more than enough to make him president, his lawyers charged in a last-ditch...
GORE FACES DAUNTING CHALLENGE - PERSUADING NATION THAT 'WINNER' IS THE LOSER
November 27, 2000 | 5:00amAl Gore now faces the uphill fight of trying to reverse an official election in Florida while trying to persuade the world that George W. Bush isn't really the president-elect....