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...That ideal, as it turns out, was a bit optimistic: By the 1 p.m. lunch break, GOP lawyers had called only two of as many as 20 potential witnesses, and Sauls seemed resigned to another long day in his robes...
...course of five and a half hours, the GOP called five witnesses. Three discussed the alleged irregularities they personally observed during the Miami-Dade recount process - including dropping ballot boxes, fanning the ballots like cards, doing pretty much everything short of taking the ballots along with them to the bathroom - apparently hoping to establish the fallibility of human hands when it comes to counting ballots and to discredit the idea of recounting once again...
...That Guy in the Photograph? One of these witnesses, a Republican observer, a lawyer named Thomas Spargo, was caught off-guard by a photograph presented by the Gore team showing him clapping and chanting with GOP activists outside the 19th floor counting room in the Miami-Dade municipal building. Even the preternaturally dispassionate Judge Sauls was intrigued by the photograph and asked Spargo a few pointed questions regarding the lawyer's whereabouts and intent that...
...there real dissension in the ranks? Cheney has perfected the shrug on this issue, but he might consider a loud plea for the local folks to wait a week - the last thing Bush needs right now is another reason to look illegitimate. (Next-to-last: the emerging GOP fight for a hand recount in New Mexico...
...Remarkably, this concluded the Gore team's testimony, and as soon as they'd officially rested their case, GOP attorney Fred Bartlit sprung from his seat to request a directed (or immediate) verdict on the grounds the Dems had no case. Judge Sauls "respectfully" denied the motion and Bartlit demurred, calling his first witness: Judge Charles Burton of the Palm Beach canvassing board...