They said they had only counted those ballots on which the intent of the voter was absolutely clear.
Instead the five justices should have been guided by the higher ideal of counting every ballot on which the intent of the voter could be determined.
Now, as in the beginning of this matter, every ballot in which the intent of the voter can be determined should be counted.
As the stylebook notes: irony, in precise usage, is a restrained form of sarcasm in which the intent of a phrase differs from its literal meaning, often for rhetorical effect (His brilliant plan nearly bankrupted the company).
The stylebook's entry states: irony, in precise usage, is a restrained form of sarcasm in which the intent of a phrase differs from its literal meaning, often for rhetorical effect (His brilliant plan nearly bankrupted the company).
Nor are petitioners correct in asserting that the failure of the Florida Supreme Court to specify in detail the precise manner in which the "intent of the voter," Florida Statute Section 101.5614( 5) is to be determined rises to the level of a constitutional violation.
Way back in 1999, Tooling Up columnist David Jensen was among the first career writers (certainly the first in the science career space) to put forward a set of best practices for dealing with behavioral interviews interviewers in which the intent of the interviewer is to learn not merely the facts about you but also about situations you've encountered in the past and how you dealt with them.
A loophole is defined as "an ambiguity or omission in the text through which the intent of a statute... may be evaded," the 1996 Board of Elections opinion is more accurately called the LLC hatchet job).
Further proposals included one in which the intent of the batsman was taken into account, but no laws were changed and the MCC merely issued a condemnation of the practice of using pads for defence.
If the Claremont Riding Academy had been built underground next to the police station at the 86th Street transverse in Central Park (which was the intent of Parks Commissioner Thomas Hoving exactly 40 years ago), we wouldn't be nostalgically wringing our hands today.
