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...Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman appeared minutes later to to say the rule of law had not fared so well at all and to give the Democratic mantra - that not all the votes had been counted - and to start immediate p.r. preparations for the long and turbulent "contest" phase ahead. "From the beginning of this extraordinary period, Vice President Gore and I have asked only that the votes that were cast on Election Day be counted," he said in his warm-up for Gore's Monday morning address, calling the Secretary of State's count "incomplete and inaccurate." James...
...only turned down Palm Beach's request for the extra time and kept her office wide open and bustling with lawyers all day, she then handed Lieberman a few lines for his speech by certifying only the original machine-count results and blithely moving...
...Lieberman came out in front of the vice-presidential residence Friday to soften the p.r. ground for the battle, holding a press conference to accuse Republican supporters, via "orchestrated demonstrations" in Miami-Dade on Wednesday, of intimidating the canvassing board into dropping its hand count. Expect Gore's post-certification trump card to be well cared for all weekend...
...Dade counties, canvassing officials have run into a substantial number of ballots whose punch holes are not actually punched, but are sort of poked or prodded or rendered somehow concave. Democratic observers are pushing vote counters to include those indented ballots (most of which appear to favor the Gore-Lieberman ticket) in the state's ultimate tally. At least 300 dimpled ballots have been set aside in Palm Beach County, where they await orders from Florida's Supreme Court. On Tuesday night, the court appeared to have not addressed the issue, though they did cite a ruling from the Illinois...
...Vice presidential nominee Joe Lieberman was among the first Democrats to take a conciliatory stance on the military ballot issue, saying on NBC's "Meet the Press" he thought vote counters should give those ballots "the benefit of the doubt." Nobody within the Gore campaign would comment on Lieberman's sentiment, or whether the vice president shared it. But when you take the senator's assertion in conjunction with Butterworth?s announcement, you have what looks very much like a change of heart. Now we'll just have to wait to see if beleaguered election officials are as susceptible...