George@Orwellian.Org previously wrote: # There's legal precedent for Florida judges # to take corrective action if the will of the # people (their votes) was thwarted. It's started. http://www.gopbi.com/shared/news/politics/florida_gopbi.html # # Judge halts certification of Palm Beach ballots # # The Associated Press # # West Palm Beach -- Presidential ballots in Palm Beach County # can't be certified by the state pending a Tuesday court hearing, # a circuit judge ruled Thursday. # # The preliminary injunction means the county, embroiled in a # controversy over punchcard ballots that allegedly confused voters, # could further delay for days the outcome of the presidential # race between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore. # # The order, issued Thursday night by Circuit Judge Kathleen Kroll, # is the result of one of six lawsuits filed in Palm Beach County # by voters who say they may have mistakenly voted for Reform Party # candidate Pat Buchanan instead of Vice President Gore because # of the way the ballot was designed. Two other lawsuits filed # in Tallahassee allege race discrimination in Tuesday's balloting. # # The Palm Beach County voters want a new election in the county. # # In the order, Kroll wrote that based on a lawsuit filed by two # Boca Raton women it appears they would suffer ``irreparable # injury'' if the votes are certified before the case can be heard. # # ``To preserve the electoral process in this presidential election # and the important voters' rights at stake, there is an immediate # need for a resolution in this case,'' Kroll wrote. [snip]