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...flying. By late last week, 24-hour news channels were announcing new filings and rulings at the same breathless clip they were calling states for Bush and Gore on election night. A Palm Beach County judge rules that local officials have the option of counting dimpled chads. A Broward County judge rules the same. A suit is filed challenging absentee ballots in Seminole. "I used to leave the house to pick up the newspaper," says Bush lawyer Barry Richard. "Now I leave to pick up the next complaint that's been filed...
...After the ruling, Harris ordered the counties to submit reasons they should be allowed to revise their vote totals. Three counties - Palm Beach, Broward and Miami-Dade - responded to her in writing by her 2 p.m. Wednesday deadline. But after she reviewed their submissions, she found them unsatisfactory. Harris then declared that she would certify final election results on Saturday after the state's absentee ballots were counted...
...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...
...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...