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...Gore campaign will challenge the Palm Beach board's recounting method in court today, complaining they used too stringent a standard to determine which votes were valid...
Yesterday, with time running out before the 5 p.m. deadline for submitting final vote tallies to Harris' office, Palm Beach remained 800 to 1,000 ballots short of finishing its hand recount. The Palm Beach canvassing board then requested that Harris include its partial recount in her final tally, but Harris denied the request. The partial recount would have given Gore a net gain of 180 votes...
...State Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner by 537 votes - enough for him to claim victory a third time. But even as Republicans planned their celebrations, the Democratic faithful were primed to fight on - especially after Harris decided to leave out the results of the hand count Palm Beach canvassers stayed up all night to produce. "George Bush can have as many balloon drops as he wants," said Al Gore's lieutenant Ron Klain, "but there's no one in this country who believes the election is over before the votes are counted." But Republicans disagreed. "The American...
...Gore is also convinced that his team may have found the reason so many Palm Beach ballots were clearly punched through in all the boxes except the presidential one. The canvassers were judging that oversight to be a sign of voter indecision and rejecting those ballots; but why would Palm Beach have five times as many such ambiguous ballots as counties that used different measures? Because worn equipment made it harder to punch that particular hole cleanly through, Gore supporters argued, which provided more grounds to challenge the outcome. Democrats have collected 10,000 affidavits from voters who said they...
...right to a recount than the Republican counteroffensive began - even though many states, including Texas, consider hand counts to be reliable. The judges who endorsed the 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...