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...Everything hinges on the absentee votes still drifting in from abroad, which are not expected to be fully counted until this Friday. Even more important, because they could easily reverse Bush's narrow lead, are the manual recounts that have been approved by local electoral commissions in Palm Beach, Broward and Volusia counties...
When they looked closely as the recount was getting under way, Democrats noticed that in other counties with punch ballots, a disproportionate number had no votes for President. In Broward alone, which gave Gore 68% of its vote, there were 6,686 ballots that did not register a presidential vote. In Pinellas, election authorities figured out this problem and began removing the little hanging flap from the punch cards, although they didn't catch all the faulty ballots before the full recount was completed. Nonetheless, Gore picked up 417 votes there, and now it became important for Democrats to press...
...states had tumbled one way or the other, and both men had a total of 242 electoral votes. The counts were unimaginably, unbearably close. Florida was still undecided, but by 1 a.m. the Bush camp had more than a 200,000-vote cushion. Bush staff members knew Dade and Broward counties still hadn't reported, but their models told them they had a lead that was insurmountable. The margin would shrink, but then "it was just a matter of hanging on to the cliff by our fingers," remembers McKinnon. The problem is "each finger kept getting stepped...
...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...