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certification because of the decision last Wednesday by Miami-Dade County canvassers to drop their recount and because ballots that had been judged to be for the vice president there and in Nassau County were subsequently subtracted from his total...
...sued for by the vice president. First, said Judge Sauls, Gore's lawyers did not prove that election would have changed if the recount took place. He also ruled that there was no evidence to show abuse of discretion by the canvassing boards in Palm Beach, Miami-Dade or Nassau counties; that there is no evidence of fraud or improper influence in the counting process; and that there is no preponderance of evidence showing balloting or counting problems widespread enough to necessitate a recount. Gore's lawyers immediately announced that they were appealing the decision to the Florida Supreme Court...
...Nassau County: The canvassing board reverted to election-night tallies after discovering that a ballot-counting machine had malfunctioned during the recount. A recount in Nassau is likely to produce more votes for Bush than for Gore, but that hasn't stopped the Gore legal team from stepping in and demanding updated numbers...
...legal issues yet unresolved and all the hand counts unfinished. Contesting an officially certified presidential election? Child's play, Boies told reporters, and don't worry. "Everything's going to be over on December 12." He wants to spend the next two weeks suing in Miami-Dade, Nassau and even Palm Beach, which he says was too hard on the dimpled ballots. Boies has been telling everyone who would listen that there are more than 10,000 votes in Miami-Dade that have never been counted because the voting machines spit them out. Declared Boies Sunday afternoon: "Until those votes...
...recounts were denounced as biased; the exhausted counters were accused of attempting an in-broad-daylight theft of the presidency - even though Palm Beach County turned up far fewer extra Gore votes than anyone expected because of their stricter rules about counting dimpled ballots. Democrats were also stunned by Nassau County, a GOP stronghold, which decided on Friday to use its initial election-night vote count rather than the mandatory machine recount performed several days later. That recount had yielded 52 more votes for Gore and had already been certified by the county. "If I can't win that argument...