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...hasn't Palm Beach started counting yet? Broward has gone ahead. Palm Beach has already voted to count. They've already been given leeway by a local judge to count those "dimpled chads" any way they want. Fifty election workers have been standing by for two days. And now the Supreme Court of Florida has turned them loose...
...With the 2 p.m. deadline for "Why I Want a Recount" notes come and gone, Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris has received letters of justification from Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County, and - who knew? - Collier County, in the Naples area...
...Broward, the most Democratic county in the state, a moving van full of ballots has pulled up to the Broward County Emergency Operations Center (built for hurricanes, but this'll do), and now the county that tested and rejected a manual recount (and then was sued by the Democrats to reconsider) is about to start playing the chad game...
...Well, that's what it's all about - the counting of the votes. The Bush stance is that they've already been counted not once but twice, the Gore stance that one more, by hand, ought to do it. With Broward County and Palm Beach County waiting for the go-ahead in counts that Gore camper David Boies said "would only take a week," the Democrat argument is now, "why don't we just get started...
...they have a new target: Broward County, after initially halting its hand recount, has decided that machine error was in fact responsible for a four-vote Gore-ward swing in a sample hand count. Wednesday, the two Democrats on the canvassing board outvoted the Republican, and a county-wide hand count is on in a county that went 2-1 for Gore...