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...Bush's team was right when it said Gore wanted to count and count until he got the result he wants--but Gore firmly believes he won Florida (and thus the presidency). And the Vice President's camp was right when it said Bush was trying to short-circuit the recount and hang on to his slender victory--because he too is convinced the job is rightfully his. Which is why, amid the mind-boggling array of court filings and counterfilings and dueling press conferences, there was really only one narrative line worth following: Bush's attempts (aided...
...lawsuit began when Harris announced that she would certify the state's vote at 5 p.m. last Tuesday, even though several counties were still counting votes by hand. Harris told the counties they were legally required to submit their vote totals within seven days of the election. Leon County circuit-court Judge Terry Lewis, who was assigned the case, issued an initial decision that offered something to each side. He ruled that the counties could continue their hand counts, but he also affirmed that Harris had the authority not to accept those recounted votes. And there was one more thing...
...some counties and not others, the state was depriving voters in counties that were not being recounted of equal protection of the law. It was an odd claim--the G.O.P. doesn't usually ask the federal courts to intrude in state elections--and an unconvincing one. As the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals noted in rejecting it, Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution expressly provides that each state may select its presidential electors "in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct." That's another way of saying that the states call the shots in presidential elections...
...Volusia and Palm Beach counties (joined by the Gore team) file suit in Leon County circuit court to extend the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for certifying their results. The argument: since state law allows hand counts and since those under way may be completed after the deadline, the state should wait to certify results until the hand counts...
...Leon County circuit court judge Terry Lewis rules that the 5 p.m. deadline stands, but that Secretary Harris may not arbitrarily disregard hand-counted tallies that come in after the deadline...