Florida Recount 2018

Florida Supreme Court 1 Minute

Today’s front page of the Tallahassee newspaper took my breath away. It made me think about Florida’s last statewide election recount 18 years ago when its botched presidential race led to the series of legal cases known to history as Bush v. Gore. So I pulled out some photos from the Florida Supreme Court archives. Take a look.

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Published by Robert Craig Waters

Robert Craig Waters is a Florida writer. After leaving journalism in the early 1980s, he worked as an attorney, communications director, and public spokesman for the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee for 35 years. He grew up on a family farm in Beulah, Florida, not far from the Alabama border, before attending Brown University in the 1970s. His mother's family traces its roots to Weaverville, North Carolina. His father's family is from the small village of Burnt Corn, Alabama, where Mr. Waters spent part of his childhood.

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