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...most striking thing about the legal battles in Florida is just how quickly the briefs are flying. By late last week, 24-hour news channels were announcing new filings and rulings at the same breathless clip they were calling states for Bush and Gore on election night. A Palm Beach County judge rules that local officials have the option of counting dimpled chads. A Broward County judge rules the same. A suit is filed challenging absentee ballots in Seminole. "I used to leave the house to pick up the newspaper," says Bush lawyer Barry Richard. "Now I leave to pick...
...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...
...still Al Gore's target. But wait - that one's moving again too. Republicans are accusing Democrats of playing stickler with overseas military personnel after playing sympathetic with old ladies in Palm Beach. Of 3,626 mail-in ballots received, 1,420 have been rejected because of issues with postmarks, signatures and other extra-booth variables. Can a ballot without a postmark be deemed on time? Will it be post offices, foreign and domestic, that pick our president...
...statistically probable comes to pass, and the hand counts go on over Bush's now next-stop-SCOTUS objections, some day next week Palm Beach, or Broward, or Miami-Dade will find enough lost votes to put Al Gore over the top in Florida, and over the top in the election...
...that's the problem. Because you might not have filled in that questionaire, you may not have been counted, just like folks in Palm Beach County whose chads got not further than just being impregnated...