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From the WSJ Opinion Archives

'No Competent Substantial Evidence' Al Gore's desperate effort to sue himself into the White House appears to be nearing an end. Ruling on Al Gore's contest of the certification of the presidential election results in Florida, Judge N. Sanders Sauls yesterday rejected virtually every argument made by the Gore lawyers. He rules that: "In this case, there is no credible statistical evidence and no other competent substantial evidence to establish by a preponderance a reasonable probability that the results of the statewide election in the state of Florida would be different from the result which has been certified...