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...Kimball Brace, the founder and president of tiny Election Data Services, shambled up to the witness stand of Judge Sanders Sauls' Leon County omnibus hearing-for-the-presidency, bespectacled and bookish, grayed and shaggy - like Pat Caddell's older and even geekier brother. A political scientist by education and a demographer (sort of) by trade, he's also been looking in on the election offices and voting booths of this great nation for 25 years. He'd even brought his own Votomatic, just like they use in Palm Beach, which he'd owned since the '70s. And after a meticulous...
...though one court or another. In his first nationally televised "offer" to Bush, Gore took the issue off the table, but Bush turned up his nose. And the issue continued to percolate in the courts, first in Palm Beach - where five judges recused themselves from the case - then in Leon County, finally landing in the Florida Supreme Court. Ticking, ticking, ticking, ready to blow...
...previous court (the 11th district circuit court in Atlanta). And since those judges have already heard the case (and ruled against Bush), unless there is a new twist in the case compelling the court to revisit the arguments, Bush loses automatically. The legal focus would then revert to the Leon County courthouse, where Gore's contest of the election results continues...
...first scenario, the Supreme Court accepts the case, hears it all the way through and rules against Bush. In the second, SCOTUS rules for Bush on the pre-certification extension, but refuses to rule on the subsequent contesting of the Florida vote. Back in Tallahassee, if Leon County judge Sanders Sauls rules in favor of Gore and allows the recount to take place, Gore could still win the election...
...Saturday, Dec. 2 (?) Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls will hold a hearing to determine, among other things, whether the critical Miami-Dade undervotes should be counted. If Sauls rules against Gore, he'll merely send David Boies across the street to the Florida Supremes (Boies may be there before then, looking for an immediate start to the counting). But with all the media attention sure be lavished on the Saturday hearing, the Sunday talkies could start a new round of calls for Gore to concede...