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With the nation's turkeys browning in the oven, the Florida Supreme Court took a holiday from activism and took Miami-Dade off the table. "The court has considered the writ? and denied it without prejudice," declared court spokesman Craig Waters just before 3 p.m. ET on Thanksgiving Day. "No motion to rehear will be allowed." There was no further comment...
...campaign's low-wattage legal eagles outlined for reporters a plan to reappear before the same high court with a different vehicle: a contest of the original Miami-Dade results that are headed to the Secretary of State's office on Sunday. And they will fight them in "perhaps other counties," until Gore calls them off. Some say this means weeks...
...Gore's lawyers are already into next week, salting the earth in Miami-Dade in case Palm Beach and Broward don't get their man "over the top." But from Sunday night to Monday morning, a losing Gore would have a chance to yank on the legal leash...
...Outside the courtrooms, the counties in question are unable to reach a consensus. In Miami-Dade County, where election workers are counting by far the largest number of ballots, the dimpled (or pregnant) chads are already being counted as votes. In Palm Beach and Broward counties, election workers are setting aside the dimpled ballots into "questionable" piles, where they await further deliberations. And the final arbiter will be the courts: Wednesday, Palm Beach Democrats will go to court to try to force election officials to accept broader interpretations of "intent to vote" with regard to the dimpled chads...
...honest about the suspense. In what is now almost purely a numbers game, Gore has less than a week to find 930 votes (or more, depending on the absentee ballot challenges) in the piles of cardboard and chads sitting in the counting rooms of Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties. And on November 26, he's going to win or he's going to lose...