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Article: Inside the U.S. Supreme Court, as the election dispute heads to Washington.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- November 30, 2000
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WASHINGTON _ A presidential election dispute goes to the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday for the first time in our nation's history. Here are some questions and answers about how the high court works and how the case will proceed.
Q: What are the issues before the court?
A: The Florida Supreme Court ordered Florida's secretary of state to include in the state's final vote tally all recounts submitted by individual counties through Nov. 26, ignoring a Nov. 14 deadline set by state law for certifying presidential election results. Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn that ruling on the grounds that it ...