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After a flurry of court rulings, manual recounts continue in Florida, but it remains for the courts to decide whether revised numbers will be accepted. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris said she would not consider recounts certified after 5 p.m. Tuesday...
...Florida Supreme Court yesterday denied Secretary of State Katherine Harris' request to stop manual recounts in progress in several counties. Bush had joined the lawsuit early yesterday...
...with the usual boilerplate about how this was a test of democracy, and followed with a classic Gore-as-schoolteacher explanation of why machines sometimes make mistakes. ("Machines can sometimes misread or fail to detect the way ballots are cast...") He insisted that those mistakes can be caught in manual recounts, recounts that are "accepted far and wide as the best way to know the true intentions of the voters...
...situation according to Baker: Manual recounts in six Republican counties? Nah. Seminole County was just feeding some rejected ballots through the machine a second time...
...Broward, the most Democratic county in the state, a moving van full of ballots has pulled up to the Broward County Emergency Operations Center (built for hurricanes, but this'll do), and now the county that tested and rejected a manual recount (and then was sued by the Democrats to reconsider) is about to start playing the chad game...