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...lady certainly had a firm grip on her discretion. The Florida Supreme Court had given her a nice out - if a timid but honest canvassing board like Palm Beach's (we know they're honest because Gore is suing them in the morning) wasn't going to finish on time, she could give them 16 more hours if the Secretary of State's office was closed on Sunday...
...only turned down Palm Beach's request for the extra time and kept her office wide open and bustling with lawyers all day, she then handed Lieberman a few lines for his speech by certifying only the original machine-count results and blithely moving...
...maybe the counting board shouldn't have taken Thanksgiving off. But if Harris was any sort of diplomat, she might have graciously closed up her office, taken the whole batch in the morning, and in the process made her soon-to-be-litigated certification a little less temporary. Palm Beach, counting for posterity and the courts, finished before the ceremony took place. Bush's lead was not in danger...
...unresolved and all the hand counts unfinished. Contesting an officially certified presidential election? Child's play, Boies told reporters, and don't worry. "Everything's going to be over on December 12." He wants to spend the next two weeks suing in Miami-Dade, Nassau and even Palm Beach, which he says was too hard on the dimpled ballots. Boies has been telling everyone who would listen that there are more than 10,000 votes in Miami-Dade that have never been counted because the voting machines spit them out. Declared Boies Sunday afternoon: "Until those votes are counted, this...
...Gore will start right away. From his Monday address until the Supreme Court rules, the veep has to rely on the polls that say a majority of Americans still have a feeling that the vote has been kind of fishy. That there are votes in Miami-Dade, in Palm Beach, in some other counties, that were cast by Democrats for Gore with good intention but lousy execution. That those votes are out there somewhere, waiting to be found, interpreted and put in the veep's consistently rising column...