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Should the 14,000 disputed ballots in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties be counted and added to the statewide tally? Gore needs a victory here--and fast. This case and all appeals must be resolved by Dec. 12, or he loses. Bush is delaying by raising peripheral questions, calling scads of witnesses and asking for 1.1 million ballots to be counted. Can he run out the clock...
...making its own decisions - on dimples, on who would observe the counts, on how to separate the undervoted ballots from the others, and so on. Hillsborough County, for instance, decided not to count dimples. (Says canvassing board member Marcia Reynolds, "These chads are a living nightmare.") But Miami-Dade had already started a hand count last month that included dimples...
...other 60-odd counties hit with a judicial cattle prod Friday night, most canvassing boards were still scrambling for guidance and starting the process of culling out the undervotes from piles as large as 291,000 ballots in Duval County (which had the benefit of Miami-Dade's sorting software) and some 200,000 in Hillsborough. Some had expected to meet Judge Terry Lewis' 2 p.m. Sunday deadline; some were shooting for Monday or later...
...kitten-herding, and the scattered reports only inspired confidence in the Gore camp and Democrats who had finally seen their dreams come true, if only for a little while. But were they coming true? Numbers had been bandied about: 58 net for Gore, 44 net for Bush in Miami-Dade. In Pinellas County, 272 ballots yielded 2 for Bush and 1 for Gore. All the rest were deemed intent-less...
...That 58-vote gain is statistically useless and more than a little suspect; in fact the trend from Miami-Dade was running in Bush's direction. But no matter what happens on Monday, Al Gore doesn't want you to ever forget...