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Broward began its hand count late yesterday afternoon, Palm Beach's recount is currently on hold pending legal resolution, and the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board voted 2-1 against a manual recount after a recount of three precincts only netted Gore an additional six votes. The commission sent a letter to Harris requesting that these six votes be included in the official totals...
...Here's what Gore was thinking. He knew that the Florida Supreme Court had earlier in the day upheld the right of counties to hold manual recounts. And he also knew that manual recounting holds a certain intuitive "will of the people" appeal that dovetails very neatly with his avowed populism. And so, in an ambush address cleverly timed to get live feeds on the network newscasts, lines like this were rolling across his Teleprompter...
...Americans have watched on television, they have seen for themselves that manual counting, with individuals making subjective decisions about voter intent, introduces human error and politics into the vote-counting process. Each time these voting cards are handled the potential for errors multiplies. Additional manual counts of votes that have been counted and recounted will make the process less accurate, not more so." A bit presumptious about what the American people are seeing, but well summed...
...State Katherine Harris, who has made several key decisions that Gore's supporters say have prevented votes being counted and thus may have hurt the vice president's chances of winning Florida. Thursday, in the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, Democrats are challenging Harris's decision to ignore the manual recount results achieved after the official deadline at 5 p.m. Tuesday (a separate suit from the Palm Beach County decision handed down by the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday...
...votes Saturday and declare Bush the winner. First, of course, she'll have to get past Florida's Supreme Court, which on Wednesday and Thursday refused legal moves to block hand recounts, and might well overturn a circuit court decision or a unilateral conclusion by Harris, and order the manual recounts to continue and be included in the statewide figures...