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...Broward County, now done with its ballot-by-ballot scrutiny of 1,800 disputed ballots, has turned up 583 net votes for Gore. Palm Beach, about half-done with its own stack of 9,500 questionables, has turned up a net of 46 for Gore. For a while, the canvassing board thought it wouldn't be done in time, and sent an extension request to Katherine Harris. Legally, Harris could play it cool by not showing up for work and just letting Palm Beach turn in its numbers Monday morning. Nobody's expecting her to do that, though...
...Sometime around 3 p.m. ET Thursday, Broward County counters knocked off and went home after bringing their dimple-by-dimple scrutiny of the 2,000-ballot "undervote" pile to near-completion. So far, 205 net votes for Gore - reportedly, the standard is on the loose side. In an episode much re-played on the cable news channels, a Broward counter got in a shouting match with a GOP lawyer, and Montana firebrand Gov. Mark Racicot tried to break...
...only this scenario were unfolding in Texas. While election law in Florida is inconclusive with regard to the inclusion of dimpled, hanging and detached chads, Lone Star State voters need only create a depression on a ballot in order for their vote to count. (Thanks, in part at least, to Governor George W. Bush, who signed the "voter intent" decree into law just a few years...
...Florida high court made no definitive ruling on whether these marks were admissible, but they did refer favorably to a 1990 ruling in which the Illinois Supreme Court stated that an indented ballot could, in some cases, be perceived as an indication of "voter intent." With a nod to the existing Florida law, however, the Court also bowed to the ultimate authority of the state legislature when it comes to the dimpled chads: "We leave that matter to the sound discretion of the body best equipped to address it - the legislature...
...being reasonably honest about the suspense. In what is now almost purely a numbers game, Gore has less than a week to find 930 votes (or more, depending on the absentee ballot challenges) in the piles of cardboard and chads sitting in the counting rooms of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. And on November 26, he's going to win or he's going to lose...