Word: broward
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...Broward County, hand-counters have held a quarter of their 400,000-odd twice-scanned ballots up to the light, fought over dimpled chads and fallen ones, and found only 50 net votes for Gore. Their final number is expected at the end of Monday...
...state of things: Broward County is still counting, and has reportedly turned up 21 more votes for Gore than for Bush. Palm Beach County, having got its last pat on the back from the Florida Supremes Thursday, has just begun. Miami-Dade County, under heavy pressure from the Democrats, is set Friday to reconsider its decision not to undergo a hand count. And Republican stronghold Collier County, which merely found 25 ballots lying around and wants to slip them into the total, is still wondering whether Harris will have any use for them...
...most part, local taxpayers are picking up the tab. In some counties, ballot counters are government employees who are racking up overtime pay, while others are temporary workers paid about $7.50 an hour. The counties also pitch in for counters' lunches and dinners, at a cost Broward County officials estimate at $1,450 a day. Some speculate the recounts could cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars by the time it's all over. And let's not forget the attorneys! Lawyers who have been retained by local government officials are also billing right to the counties, while lawyers...
...starting to show public impatience, they also say a majority is still behind hand counts in principle. Certainly Gore's case for including them is a lot easier to make with the highest court in Florida backing him up (so far). And meanwhile the counts go on, in Broward County and Palm Beach County, with the numbers slowly trickling into Gore's column. Miami-Dade, under heavy Democratic pressure, on Friday decided to join them and hold what could be a million ballots up to the light...
...statistically probable comes to pass, and the hand counts go on over Bush's now next-stop-SCOTUS objections, some day next week Palm Beach, or Broward, or Miami-Dade will find enough lost votes to put Al Gore over the top in Florida, and over the top in the election...