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In Broward County, officials did not attempt to produce the ballots reported as undervotes or overvotes by the machine count ; instead, they presented the ballots that remained as undervotes or overvotes after the official county recount, which had given Gore a net 567 additional votes, and which had been conducted under loose standards, including counting as legal votes ballots with " dimpled " chad.
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* WPA Children ’ s Books ( 1935-1943 ) Broward County Library ’ s Bienes Museum of the Modern Book
The sheriff of Broward County, where the Indian reservation lies, made arrests the minute the bingo hall opened, and the tribe sued the county ( Seminole Tribe v. Butterworth ), stating that Indian tribes have sovereignty rights that are protected by the federal government from interference by state government.
While filming in the Broward County Courthouse used as the set for the Miami Courthouse, director Fosse decided to cast a real-life bailiff in the role of the bailiff who drags Dustin Hoffman ( Lenny ) out of the courtroom.
Brevard County in 1856 extended as far west as Polk County and as far south as coastal Broward County.
The portions of Brevard County in present-day Broward and Palm Beach counties were given to Dade County, western areas of the county were given to Polk and Osceola counties, and parts of Volusia and Orange counties were given to Brevard, including the eventual county seat of Titusville.
Broward County is a county located in the U. S. state of Florida.
Broward County was created in 1915.
It was originally intended to be named Everglades County, but then-Speaker of the Florida House of Representatives Ion Farris amended the bill that established the county to be named after Broward.
In 1915, Palm Beach County and Dade County contributed nearly equal portions of land to create Broward County.
At its inception, Broward County was considered a leader in agriculture products and services within the State of Florida.
Broward County has an average elevation of six feet ( 1. 8 m ) above sea level.
Broward County is composed of Oolite limestone while western Broward is composed mostly of Bryozoa.
Of developable land in Broward County, approximately, the majority is built upon, as the urban area is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and the Everglades National Park to the west.
Within developable land, Broward County has a population density of 3, 740 per square mile ( 1, 444 per square kilometer ).
410, 387 residents of Broward County, or 25. 3 percent of the total population, were foreign-born ( 45 % of whom were naturalized citizens ), of which 60, 241 of these were born in Jamaica, 47, 445 in Haiti, 32, 572 in Cuba, 12, 776 in Peru, 9, 189 in the United Kingdom, and 9, 015 in the Dominican Republic.
As of 2005, Broward County led the nation's metropolitan areas in new AIDS diagnoses, with a reported rate 58. 4 new AIDS diagnoses per 100, 000 people.
According to the most recent estimates from the U. S. Census of 2009, the total population of Broward County had risen to almost 1. 8 million people ( 1, 754, 846 ), and increased by 10. 1 % between April 1, 2000 and July 1, 2006.
More black foreigners immigrated to Broward County between 2001 and 2005 than any other county in the United States.
Broward County Schools currently has the sixth largest school district in the country and the second largest in the state after Miami-Dade.
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Broward did not run for the House again in 1902, because he was busy with a salvage operation in the Keys.
Broward did tackle other problems during his tenure as governor.
Gilchrist, however, was much feared as a railroad man, and Broward worked as much for Stockton as he did for himself.
As recently as the 1950s, Floridians still referred to the Broward Era and to Browardism — remarkable staying power in a state that changed as much and as quickly as did Florida.
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The study was unable to review the ballots in Broward and Volusia that were counted as legal votes during the manual recounts thus analysis included those figures that were obtained using very loose standards in its calculations.
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In addition, criticism also came because of the call for Bush which occurred before precincts in Broward, Palm Beach Volusia, and Miami-Dade Counties, all democratic, reported their results to the state which occurred after the networks called the state for Bush well after 2 AM eastern standard time.
The New Times reported that while he claimed to live in Miami, he actually lived in Miramar, in Broward County.
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From the 1992 U. S. presidential election onward, however, voters of Broward County backed the Democratic presidential nominee over the Republican nominee by strong majorities.
Broward was paid by land developer Richard J. Bolles to tour the state to promote drainage.
His work, The Devil's Music: The Life and Blues of Bessie Smith, with music on the life of Bessie Smith, was named " one of the top-10 Off-Broadway experiences of 2001 " by the New York Daily News, " Best Solo Show " by Florida's Broward / Palm Beach New Times, and won a second NYFA Playwriting Fellowship ( 2000 ).
A new council formed by the merger of Girl Scouts of Broward County and
Hollywood is located in southeastern Broward County, and includes about of Atlantic Ocean beach, interrupted briefly by a portion deeded to Dania Beach.
It is the smallest incorporated community in Broward County by population and by area, largely due to the fact that it is completely composed of a single small housing development.
The city is served by Broward County Public Schools.
* 1941-Frederick C. Peters purchases for $ 25 per acre ; land had been owned by the Everglades Plantation Company ( origin of the city's name ); Broward Boulevard is a two-lane road.
The department is dispatched by Broward County Sheriff's Office communications, and responds as District 26.
Its location at the center of Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties – in close proximity to the Florida Turnpike and I-95, and bordered by the Sawgrass Expressway, I-75 and I-595 – makes Sunrise accessible to area residents and visitors alike.
Macy's New York began opening stores outside of its historic New York City – Long Island trade area in 1983 with a location at Aventura Mall in Aventura, Florida ( a suburb of Miami ), followed by several locations in Plantation, Florida ( now relocated from the Fashion Mall to the Broward Mall since the Burdine's acquisition ), Houston, New Orleans, and Dallas.
During the Florida election recount after the 2000 presidential election, Deutsch lead many of the recount efforts in Broward County and brought the motion to the floor of the Senate to contest the results of the 2000 election, an effort that had been seconded by Alcee Hastings.
Deutsch was defeated by Castor in the Democratic primary on August 31, winning only three counties ( Miami-Dade, Broward, and Monroe ).
Broward spent his childhood on a series of family farms along the St. Johns River in Jacksonville ; during the Civil War the original farm was burned by Union troops that occupied the town.
Broward withdrew from the river for a while and again traveled north, but by 1885 he was back on the St. Johns, piloting his father-in-law's steamboat Kate Spencer.
Broward was approached by a prominent member of Jacksonville's Cuban community about shipping a load of munitions and some Cuban expatriates from Nassau to Cuba.
Several times he was nearly caught and destroyed by Spanish gunboats ; the Spanish ambassador to the United States demanded that Broward be stopped and his ship impounded.
U. S. authorities attempted to do just that, but Broward managed to thwart them, by loading The Three Friends under cover of darkness in secluded locations, by hiding her behind larger ships as she left the St. Johns, and by picking up Cubans and munitions from other ships at various points near the mouth of the river.
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