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...thus the nation, has shifted to the most low-tech of fronts. Everything hinges on the absentee votes still drifting in from abroad, which are not expected to be fully counted until this Friday. Even more important, because they could easily reverse Bush's narrow lead, are the manual recounts that have been approved by local electoral commissions in Palm Beach, Broward and Volusia counties...
...Which is why the Gore camp's best legal argument may be not that Harris abused her discretion, but instead that she had no discretion at all about whether to count the hand-recounted votes. Florida law imposes an obligation on the counties to act when a sample manual recount indicates an error in vote tabulation that could affect the outcome of the election. And among the options given to counties is manually recounting all the ballots. In a county such as Miami-Dade, where 653,963 punch-card ballots were cast, it may not be possible...
...Palm Beach County, the manual counting of 462,000 is just beginning while the butterfly-shaped fight over 29,000 rejected ballots - 19,000 for double-punching, 10,000 for no punch at all, who knows how many for Buchanan when they meant Gore - lies in wait as a legal wild card. (And in GOP-heavy Seminole County, other judicial madnesses - an allegation that Republican get-out-the-absentee-vote drivers did too much of voters' registration work for them. Ruling due Monday...
...limited issue before me on this motion is whether the Secretary of State has violated my order of November 14, 2000," Lewis wrote. "The Plaintiffs assert that she has acted arbitrarily in deciding to ignore amended returns from counties conducting manual recounts. I disagree...
...legal team, which was immediately off and running to ask the county's circuit court of appeals to pass their appeal of Lewis's decision directly to the Florida Supreme Court. They have reason to be optimistic. After the Supremes gave Palm Beach County explicit permission to begin a manual count Thursday - perhaps heeding the county's statistical evidence that a hand count could affect the outcome of the election - they may not be inclined to see that hand count go to waste...