Word: broward
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With manual recounts still incomplete, the Gore vote has increased by a net total of 96 votes. If approved, this would cut Bush's lead to 834. Recounts are already underway in the large, Democratic-leaning counties, Palm Beach and Broward. Another manual recount may begin in the large Miami-Dade County. If continued without disruption, county officials said they expected the count to conclude...
...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...
...Broward County, the standard for a countable vote has been loosened, over Republican protests. Now dimples count, not just two-corner chads. The county still hopes to finish its count by the end of Monday - but with ballots from 445 of the county's 609 precincts recounted by late morning, Gore had gained only 108 votes...
...time the Florida Supreme Court rules, on Wednesday or Thursday, Broward will be done, Palm Beach will have some meaty numbers to divulge, and Miami-Dade may have at least an extrapolation-friendly sample. Depending on what that ruling is, Al Gore will have an opportunity to assess his chances of catching 930 - and his chances of surviving a fight over military absentee ballots that will certainly live to bruise him if he presses on through Thanksgiving...