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Moments later Democratic vice presidential candidate Joseph I. Lieberman said that Gore's campaign would formally challenge the results of the Florida election...
...Lieberman said that Harris had held "an incomplete and inaccurate count," giving the vice president no choice but to contest the certification...
...teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?" Lieberman said...
...Lieberman did not specify the reasons for Gore's contest of the election, but lead Gore lawyer David Boies said it would be based on at least three grounds, all involving incomplete recounting or votes he said had been tallied for the vice president at some point and later discounted...
...Gore, Joe Lieberman and campaign chairman William Daley spent Friday working the phones, calling moderate Democratic House members and Senators, shoring up support. But even Gore's legal team was aware of the dangers. Imagine the perception, an adviser noted: "Al Gore lost the election but won it back in a lawsuit." He added, "I don't think his support will collapse immediately, but there's got to be some real concern about a guy who lost the initial returns, the automatic recount, the first certification and the second certification...