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Texas Courts Online | Courts | County Courts (551 words) |
 | These courts have concurrent jurisdiction with justice of the peace and district courts in civil cases in which the amount in controversy is small. |
| The jurisdiction of statutorily-created county courts at law is usually concurrent with the jurisdiction of the county and district courts in the county. |
| The civil jurisdiction of most county courts at law varies, but is usually more than that of the justice of the peace courts and less than that of the district courts. |
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OnPolitics (washingtonpost.com) (3365 words) |
| Florida's 25 electoral votes emerged as the critical prize in the 2000 presidential race in the early morning hours of Nov. 8, as the popular-vote totals from the other 49 states and the District of Columbia left neither Bush nor Gore with a majority of the nation's 538 electoral votes. |
| Americans accustomed to thinking that they were directly voting for president and vice president now know that they are really voting for a number of electors from their state equal to the size of the state's congressional delegation: two senators plus the number of representatives, which is determined by the state's population. |
| Forty-eight states and the District of Columbia adhere to the "winner-take-all" format, which gives the winner of a state's popular vote all of the electoral votes, regardless of the closeness of the vote. |
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