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...Bush, meanwhile, is taking full advantage of the Sunday, November 26 deadline he still claims is illegal. His legal team dropped their suit in Leon County Court on Saturday and will now go to GOP counties one by one to demand the addition of military-heavy stacks of disallowed absentee ballots to certified totals. Six have already gone along and added 44 net votes for Bush...
...next big court ruling of Non-Election 2000 should come down Friday in the wake of a 2 p.m. hearing in Leon County court. The Bush team is asking Judge Ralph Smith for "immediate action" on ordering 14 heavily Republican, heavily military counties to count military absentee votes according to a lenient federal standard...
...farm lawsuit began when Harris announced that she would certify the state's vote at 5 p.m. last Tuesday, even though several counties were still counting votes by hand. Harris told the counties they were legally required to submit their vote totals within seven days of the election. Leon County circuit court judge Terry Lewis, who was assigned the case, issued an initial decision that offered something to each side. He ruled that the counties could continue their hand counts, but he also affirmed that Harris had the authority not to accept those recounted votes. And there was one more...
...Friday Score a very big one for George W. Bush - so far, the midnight deadline still holds. In a ruling relayed at 10:05 a.m. by court employee Terre Cass to a salivating roomful of reporters, Leon County circuit judge Terry Lewis ruled that Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris did right. And this decision gives Al Gore's team little opportunity to celebrate...
...What's the status of Florida's overseas military ballots? Were they included in the certified tally? A:Upon learning that some overseas ballots were excluded (because of late postmarks, no postmarks or no witness signature) the Bush legal team filed a suit in Leon County court (where Tallahassee is located) asking that those ballots be reintroduced into the hand count. Several days later, the suit was withdrawn, after Bush lawyers were satisfied that most counties had included many of the overseas ballots. The GOP legal team maintained, however, that it was prepared to refile a suit if they learn...