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...Broward County, now done with its ballot-by-ballot scrutiny of 1,800 disputed ballots, has turned up 583 net votes for Gore. Palm Beach, about half-done with its own stack of 9,500 questionables, has turned up a net of 46 for Gore. For a while, the canvassing board thought it wouldn't be done in time, and sent an extension request to Katherine Harris. Legally, Harris could play it cool by not showing up for work and just letting Palm Beach turn in its numbers Monday morning. Nobody's expecting her to do that, though...
...counting houses, the three-headed, magnifying-glass-wielding canvassing boards in Broward and Palm Beach both swear they'll be done picking over their "questionable" piles by the Sunday 5 p.m. deadline. Broward, with a quarter of its 2,000 undervotes counted, has turned up 271 net votes for Gore; Palm Beach, just beginning its own 10,000-vote stack, has turned up 14. No Lotto yet for Gore...
...that Gore's worried about Sunday, mind you: Ron Klain, a senior adviser to the campaign, smiled for the cameras Thursday and said of Broward and Palm: "I believe that will be enough to get us over...
...Sometime around 3 p.m. ET Thursday, Broward County counters knocked off and went home after bringing their dimple-by-dimple scrutiny of the 2,000-ballot "undervote" pile to near-completion. So far, 205 net votes for Gore - reportedly, the standard is on the loose side. In an episode much re-played on the cable news channels, a Broward counter got in a shouting match with a GOP lawyer, and Montana firebrand Gov. Mark Racicot tried to break...
...Gore's lawyers are already into next week, salting the earth in Miami-Dade in case Palm Beach and Broward don't get their man "over the top." But from Sunday night to Monday morning, a losing Gore would have a chance to yank on the legal leash...