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...Florida Supreme Court says it is O.K. for Broward and Palm Beach counties to go ahead with their hand counts...
...Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties give Harris reasons why she should allow hand counts submitted after her Tuesday deadline. Harris considers, then rejects, the counties' arguments...
Carol Roberts, 64, is an avid collector of stuffed and ceramic penguins and donkeys. Subtlety has never been her style in decor--or in politics. Last week the former Democratic mayor of West Palm Beach used her spitfire stratagems to boost Al Gore. Wearing a tiny butterfly pin to mock the infamous ballot, she faced the cameras and vowed to count every last vote. Why wait for court approval? Why should the battle for the Constitution wait for a judge? "What happens? Do we go to jail?" she asked the lawyer for the board of canvassers. "Because I'm ready...
This is how Roberts got her spotlight. As a county commissioner, she sits on the canvassing board, a job that most find dull but she enjoys because she likes to be in the action on election night. For her, the unending election night was heaven--and Palm Beach the red-hot center of paradise. After a sample of ballots were hand counted for an excruciating 17 hours and Gore picked up extra votes, Roberts did the math in her head: if he got 19 more votes from recounting only 1% of the ballots, he might get 1,900 more votes...
...commandeering the proceedings in Palm Beach, Roberts has become for Democrats what Harris has become for Republicans. Says county commissioner Mary McCarty, a Republican: "She's the Joan of Arc of the Democratic Committee right now." Other names haven't been so lofty--if they are at all printable. "You are such a Democratic hack," wrote a woman in one of 3,000 e-mails sent to Roberts. "People are laughing at you all over...