The pet teams she certifies often volunteer at Hartford Hospital.
And so she certified his death by phone.
What was driving that was, 'Oh my God, whatever you do, don't allow the secretary of state to certify a winner.' It was palpable the moment she certified it".
She has been a polarizing figure on the political scene since 2000, when as Florida's secretary of state she certified George W. Bush's 537-vote win in the state's disputed presidential election.
If the hand counts show a very different result from the machine results she certifies, the lawyer said, "it will be very hard to explain that to the people of Florida and the nation".
Moreover, the secretary of state certified results of a partial manual recount using the Miami-Dade standard when she certified the six additional votes from the three precincts sampled by the Miami-Dade board.
"The standard as to whether or not she has rejected a sufficient number of votes to cast in doubt the accuracy of the election is something that only comes into play after she certifies," David Boies, the leader of Mr. Gore's legal team, told reporters shortly after noon today.
Katherine Harris, the secretary of state whose face and demeanor were seared into many memories when she certified the state's electoral votes for George W. Bush in 2000, rode her role in that drama into the House, where she will represent Sarasota and Bradenton.
The court's tough, outspoken chief prosecutor, Carla del Ponte, a former Swiss attorney general, made sure the EU would not entertain Serbian or Croatian bids for membership unless she certified that their governments were fully co-operating with The Hague.
At a hastily called news conference this afternoon in the Capitol cabinet room in Tallahassee -- the same place where she certified the election results in favor of George W. Bush -- Ms. Harris told reporters, "I made a mistake in not filing a letter of resignation at the time I qualified for my Congressional race".
