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44 Cards in this Set
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Who was born March 31, 1948? |
Gore |
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Who was born in Washington D.C |
Gore |
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Who graduated from Harvard University in 1969? |
Gore |
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Who served in the Vietnam war as a military reporter? |
Gore |
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Who was elected into the US Representatives in 1976 |
Gore |
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Who was in the Senate in 1984 |
Gore |
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Who was one of ten Democratic senators who votes to authorize the use of American military force against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War |
Gore |
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Who graduated of Yale, 1968 |
George W. Bush |
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Who was pilot, Texas Air National Guard |
George W. Bush |
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Who got a master of business administration from Harvard, 1975 |
George W. Bush |
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Was elected the 46th Governor of Texas |
George W. Bush |
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How many electoral college votes do you need to get a majority |
270 electoral college votes |
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Who determines the method for choosing the electors? |
states |
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What is the deadline for the Electoral college to cast their votes? |
December 18 |
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What did Bush argue for? |
Florida violated Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment |
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Who was the governor that had to serve on the Election Canvassing commission? |
Jeb Bush |
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Who files Certificate of Ascertainment in National archives before December 18? |
Jeb Bush (governor of Florida |
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Who makes Laws governing elections? |
Florida Legislature |
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Who holds the power to determine the slate of electors |
Florida Legislature |
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Who was the Secretary of State in Florida |
Katherine Harris |
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Who is the Chief Election Officer? |
Katherine Harris |
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Who are involved in the Election Canvassing Commission? |
Governor, Secretary of State, Director of Elections (appointed by sec. of state) |
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Who is in charge of certifying election results |
Election Canvassing commission |
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Who heard 4 cases pertaining to the 2000 election? |
State Supreme Court |
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What is the highest state court? |
State Supreme Court |
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What received appeals from the state circuit courts |
State Supreme Court |
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What is the first place to file contest after election results are certified? |
State Circuit Court |
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By statute, the Florida legislature created two distinct phases of an election challenge |
protest and contest |
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What challenges the accuracy of the count? |
Protest phase |
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What occurs before Florida's elections canvassing commission certified the statewide results |
Protest Phase |
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When can you do manual recounts? |
particular and limited circumstances |
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No state wide recounts can be declared during the phase |
protest phase |
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If their is an error in the count, you submit a protest to? |
County Canvassing Board |
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If the charge is fraud? |
circuit court |
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What are the four counties that Gore protested? |
Palm Beach, Miami Dade, Volusia, Broward |
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What word enters the vocabulary? |
Dimpled Chad |
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What court case state that the deadline will be extended until Nov. 26? |
Palm Beach County Canvassing Board vs. Harris |
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What does Bush claim after the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board vs. Harris? |
Violation of article II and 14th Amendment |
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What does per curium mean? |
by the court |
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What could not begin until elections certified at the close of the protest stage? |
Contest phase |
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What case reverses the decision of the lower court and order that manual recounts should go forward and rules that all counties had to recount their undervote |
Gore vs. Harris |
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How long was the whole event between Bush vs. Gore? |
36 days |
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When did Gore concede? |
December 18 |
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When did the Supreme Court state that recounts in certain Florida counties was unconstitutional? What was the name of the court case? |
December 12; 5-4 ruling |
