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The controversy began on election night, November 7, 2000, when the national television networks, using information provided to them by the Voter News Service, an organization formed by the Associated Press to help determine the outcome of the election through early result tallies and exit polling, first called Florida for Gore in the hour after polls closed in the peninsula (in the Eastern ...
By December 8, 2000, there had been multiple court decisions about the presidential election in Florida. [16] On that date, the Florida Supreme Court, by a 4–3 vote, ordered a statewide manual recount of undervotes. [17] On December 9, ruling in response to an emergency request from Bush, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the recount.
Famous cases heard in the district include the prosecution of former Panamanian military leader Manuel Noriega, [4] the Elián González case, [5] notorious Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein, [6] a 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida case, [7] the prosecution of José Padilla, [8] and one of [9] the federal prosecutions of ...
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Unresolved post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 United States presidential election State First filing date Case Court Docket no(s). Outcome Comments References District of Columbia: November 20, 2020: Michigan Welfare Rights Org. et al. v. Donald J. Trump et al. U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia: 1:20-cv-03388 Ongoing
Florida previously had rigorous felony disenfranchisement laws that denied approximately 400,000 people the privilege of voting [2] In 2007, at the urging of Gov. Charlie Crist, the laws were relaxed, allowing hundreds of thousands of non-violent offenders to regain their voting rights after having served their prison terms. [3]
(Reuters) - A federal judge in Florida on Thursday invalidated several of the state's new Republican-backed voting restrictions, ruling that they violate minority voters' constitutional rights.
Initially reserving their ruling, the trial court denied the motion after White was convicted by a jury. While the Florida First District Court of Appeal affirmed the conviction, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that probable cause alone does not justify a warrantless seizure. [1] [2]