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...Collier, a predominantly Republican county, was apparently going through the ballots and found 24 absentee ballots that had been mistakenly left in their envelopes, and one that was thought to be a primary ballot but may not be. Officials there just want to include them in the result...
...delaying the process? The Gore camp, Baker said, is "unwilling to make any commitment to accept finality in this election unless it receives the outcome it wants"; they make "false statements to divert attention"; and as for the illegality of the Palm Beach ballot, "that charge has faded now in the face of the finding that the ballot is legal...
...Palm Beach? Well, Palm Beach got their letter in on time, and they're eager to start, but they're afraid of lawyers. With the "butterfly ballot" plaintiffs fighting for airtime, the canvassing board is waiting for some resolution of the legal actions - Harris's and Bush's in the Supreme Court, Bush's in state court - seeking to prevent them. This county is now Most Likely to Drag This Out Into Next Week...
...Even Palm Beach County may be getting its act together. After County Circuit Judge Jorge Labarge (the sixth judge in line after five recused themselves) dissolved the injunction preventing the county from certifying election results while the "butterfly ballot" lawsuits proceed, the board sent their tallies off to Tallahassee to be included in the final tally. That was about 30 minutes before the deadline...
...Could it really be over on Saturday morning? Al Gore's lawyers can best answer that question, but for now they're ceding nothing. (An encouraging sign: Lately, sound bites about the "terrible injustice" of Palm beach's butterfly ballot have dropped off to nothing.) Gore's people continue to loudly push not for litigation, not for "partisan politics," but merely that all the votes be counted. So far, polls still show Americans are willing to wait. (And certainly the markets were cheerful enough Tuesday...