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Previously on Fiasco.

Many in this nation are getting anxious.

There are battles going on in county offices all over the state.

Republican demonstrators stormed the hallways.

They were pounding on the glass.

I mean, people were really fired up.

There would be no more counting of votes in Miami.

Gore made a conscious decision that he would fight in the courts, but not on the streets.

That's turned out of Palm Beach County, where the canvassing board is trying to beat a deadline of 5 p.m. today.

The Secretary of State has apparently decided to shut us down with approximately two hours left to go.

I hereby declare Governor George W. Bush, the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes.

What by any reasonable standard is an incomplete and inaccurate count.

When Secretary of State Catherine Harris certified the results of the Florida election for Georgia

W. Bush, the Texas governor took the opportunity to affirm the inevitability of his presidency.

Secretary Cheney and I are honored and humbled to have won the state of Florida, which gives

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