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...commission in Miami-Dade was supposed to meet this week to consider a Democratic request for a hand count there as well. But on Saturday, as the tedious process was beginning elsewhere, the Bush campaign asked a federal judge in South Florida to disqualify manual counts anywhere in the state and certify the recount already completed. Democrats quickly put out word that Bush had liked hand counts in Texas. Three years ago, he signed a law recommending them to settle disputed votes...
...might be decided by one five-thousandth of 1% of the vote. Gore seemed to have won a moral victory, but he might not have won an actual one. His 222,880-vote lead in the popular tally was the fuel for his campaign's demand for a manual recount in some Florida counties, for time to register the outcome of the absentee ballots there, and for the nation to show some patience. And so the end of one campaign marked the beginning of another. "The American people have now spoken," Bill Clinton declared, "but it's going to take...
...heaven forbid that someone would look to settle a real legal question before a judge rather than in the court of cable TV, Justices Novak, Press and Matalin presiding. After predicting a Dickensian legal quagmire, the Bush team went to court asking for an injunction to halt a manual recount. The Republic survived...
...next line was between machine counts and hand counts. In the case of serious machine error, of course Harris would use that discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...case, the Bush team argued, the Florida law was "agnostic" whether machine counts or manual counts were better or fairer. If a candidate and a county wanted to count by hand, that was fine - they'd just better get it done in seven days if they wanted to be sure it would be included. The Bush team held up Volusia County, which merely hand-counted and filed to Harris without controversy, as a shining example. It seemed to impress the Justices more than Boies' arguments why the other counties had taken so long to start...