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...tents--for a chance to watch the proceedings in person. Perhaps they weren't so different from the drivers who had paused at a rest stop off Florida's Ronald Reagan Turnpike the day before to have their picture taken with the Ryder truck coming up from West Palm Beach. But the court watchers got much more for their trouble...
...Senators felt it was important to stage a bipartisan show of support for the American judiciary, which has taken a drubbing since the Florida Supreme Court ruled to extend secretary of state Katherine Harris' certification deadline. Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show...
...with the high court, the Bushies believe they're doing very well indeed in the Florida courts. The end of last week brought strong evidence for that proposition. On Friday the Florida Supreme Court refused to order both immediate hand counts of disputed ballots and the revote in Palm Beach County sought by voters confused by the butterfly ballot...
Should the 14,000 disputed ballots in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties be counted and added to the statewide tally? Gore needs a victory here--and fast. This case and all appeals must be resolved by Dec. 12, or he loses. Bush is delaying by raising peripheral questions, calling scads of witnesses and asking for 1.1 million ballots to be counted. Can he run out the clock...
...Judge Clark finds for the Democrats, her decision could be appealed to the state supreme court, which hinted Friday about how it might respond. In an opinion denying a Palm Beach revote request, the court said a ballot must be "in substantial noncompliance" to justify an extreme remedy...