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With manual recounts still incomplete, the Gore vote has increased by a net total of 96 votes. If approved, this would cut Bush's lead to 834. Recounts are already underway in the large, Democratic-leaning counties, Palm Beach and Broward. Another manual recount may begin in the large Miami-Dade County. If continued without disruption, county officials said they expected the count to conclude...
...from three-fourths of the states, as small states receive more electoral votes per capita than their larger peers. For another, popular votes would have a greater chance of fraud or ballot error, as 200,000 fraudulent votes nationwide would be less noticeable than 19,000 errant ballots in Palm Beach County...
...hand recounts drag on in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, canvassing officials have run into a substantial number of ballots whose punch holes are not actually punched, but are sort of poked or prodded or rendered somehow concave. Democratic observers are pushing vote counters to include those indented ballots (most of which appear to favor the Gore-Lieberman ticket) in the state's ultimate tally. At least 300 dimpled ballots have been set aside in Palm Beach County, where they await orders from Florida's Supreme Court. On Tuesday night, the court appeared to have not addressed...
...Tuesday night, the Court ruled that the results of the various hand recounts must be included in Florida's overall vote tally. The counties currently conducting recounts (Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade) have until Sunday night at 5 or Monday morning at 9 to enter their new results with the secretary of state's office...
...Outside the courtrooms, the counties in question are unable to reach a consensus. In Miami-Dade County, where election workers are counting by far the largest number of ballots, the dimpled (or pregnant) chads are already being counted as votes. In Palm Beach and Broward counties, election workers are setting aside the dimpled ballots into "questionable" piles, where they await further deliberations. And the final arbiter will be the courts: Wednesday, Palm Beach Democrats will go to court to try to force election officials to accept broader interpretations of "intent to vote" with regard to the dimpled chads...