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...hand recounts drag on in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, canvassing officials have run into a substantial number of ballots whose punch holes are not actually punched, but are sort of poked or prodded or rendered somehow concave. Democratic observers are pushing vote counters to include those indented ballots (most of which appear to favor the Gore-Lieberman ticket) in the state's ultimate tally. At least 300 dimpled ballots have been set aside in Palm Beach County, where they await orders from Florida's Supreme Court. On Tuesday night, the court appeared to have not addressed...
...Tuesday night, the Court ruled that the results of the various hand recounts must be included in Florida's overall vote tally. The counties currently conducting recounts (Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade) have until Sunday night at 5 or Monday morning at 9 to enter their new results with the secretary of state's office...
...Outside the courtrooms, the counties in question are unable to reach a consensus. In Miami-Dade County, where election workers are counting by far the largest number of ballots, the dimpled (or pregnant) chads are already being counted as votes. In Palm Beach and Broward counties, election workers are setting aside the dimpled ballots into "questionable" piles, where they await further deliberations. And the final arbiter will be the courts: Wednesday, Palm Beach Democrats will go to court to try to force election officials to accept broader interpretations of "intent to vote" with regard to the dimpled chads...
...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...
...sounded very likely tonight to include them - Boies said Tuesday night that the Court had "indicated" that dimples were in. But if Harris makes Boies ask again, the Justices won't be able to escape the fact that some counties count dimples and some counties don't. And Palm Beach County hadn't included dimples in a decade. Now it suddenly wants to tally up a big pile of them that could turn up 300 more votes, and four years in the White House, for Gore...