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...legal issues yet unresolved and all the hand counts unfinished. Contesting an officially certified presidential election? Child's play, Boies told reporters, and don't worry. "Everything's going to be over on December 12." He wants to spend the next two weeks suing in Miami-Dade, Nassau and even Palm Beach, which he says was too hard on the dimpled ballots. Boies has been telling everyone who would listen that there are more than 10,000 votes in Miami-Dade that have never been counted because the voting machines spit them out. Declared Boies Sunday afternoon: "Until those votes...
...Next week belongs to the lawyers, with Gore still trying to hold onto Miami-Dade and Bush still hoping Friday will see the Supremes turn back the clock to November 14. But Sunday is a politicians' day, with nothing stopping Katherine Harris from standing up at 5 p.m. and announcing a winner of the numbers war on the ground. A war that now won't settle much except giving America's cable-news hounds a new number to put a question mark after...
...Whatever number they wind up with may not be good enough for Al Gore. David Boies, the veep's head lawyer and best spinner, says he'll get up early on Monday morning and add Palm Beach to next week's Miami-Dade fight - because he doesn't like the way the dimpled chads are being treated by the county's canvassing board. (They're being counted, but only if the voter poked some other dimples...
...bigger p.r. problem for the Republicans right now may be their good soldiers, who are already catching Democratic flak for reportedly strong-arming a timid Miami-Dade canvassing board into quitting its hand count on Wednesday. The board did not see fit to mention any thuggery in their official explanation, but when a brick gets thrown through the window of the Broward County Democratic party office with a note attached reading "We will not tolerate any illegal government," that is not the art of sweet democratic suasion...
...brawl. You'll notice that the Bush campaign called the Florida Supreme Court an "instrument of the Democratic party" when it agreed to let the manual count continue, but were silent about the court's bias when it rejected Gore's emergency appeal to force Miami-Dade to resume its recount...