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Florida election battle rages on

By RON FOURNIER The Associated Press Al Gore made a surprise proposal for a statewide hand recount of Florida’s 6 million ballots Wednesday night and George W.

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the Lowdown

“It’s interesting: From the last 40 years or so, it’s really expanded and grown and that’s great,” said the owner of Foods For Living, 2650 E.

COMMENTARY

Fix the system

Extensive reforms at national and local levels must be made to the election process.Tight elections across the country have caused close inspection of the election process, which has revealed discrepancies that have been ignored in landslide elections, but could have affected the outcome of several close races.

NEWS

College groups fight FLA affiliation

Members of Students for Economic Justice, a campus group devoted to battling for improved labor conditions in factories overseas, will paint the rock on Farm Lane tonight in an effort to spread knowledge about the anti-sweatshop movement.Adam Szlachetka, an SEJ member, said the rock painting goes hand-in-hand with the group’s efforts to get MSU into the Worker Rights Consortium, a labor monitoring organization that several universities, including the University of Michigan, belong to.

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New E.L. band opens for Bumpus at Ricks

When Matthew Kurko first saw the Chicago-based band Bumpus last year at the now-closed Small Planet Food & Spirits, he was so impressed he decided to start a band with the sole purpose of opening for them. Kurko and his band, Funk Bucket, will have that opportunity when they open for the funky groovesters from the Windy City at 9:30 tonight at Rick’s American Café, 224 Abbott Road. “We formed this past summer and basically added members as we went on,” the business graduate student said.

NEWS

Voter glitches under scrutiny

The voting problems some students faced last week have now become challenges to solve for future elections.Long lines and precinct misdirection were only a few of the nuisances students complained about on Election Day.

NEWS

State Republicans elect Johnson as House Speaker

Republicans elected state Rep. Rick Johnson of LeRoy as the next speaker of the Michigan House on Tuesday. Johnson, who was elected to his second term in the House this month, will become the most powerful member of the legislative body and will preside over House sessions.