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...accordance with Tuesday's ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, Harris set a 2 p.m. Wednesday deadline for requests by counties that wished to pursue a hand count. Broward and Palm Beach counties, which are in the process of tabulating votes, and Miami-Dade county, which decided against a hand count, filed requests for the extension of Tuesday's 5 p.m. certification deadline with Harris...
...Gore's salvo Wednesday night was timed perfectly, not just because it interrupted the network news, but because he had a pretty darn good idea that the Floriday Supreme Court would do exactly what it did this afternoon: approve the continuation of the hand-count. Which is exactly what Palm Beach County started doing within minutes of the ruling. First move to Gore...
...phrase: "complete hand counts already begun in Palm Beach County, Dade County and Broward County." This was a virtual fib - apart from some exploratory counts in a couple of precincts, Palm Beach isn't counting yet; Dade declined to start; and Broward was forced into it by the Democrats. But "already begun" was worth the risk, because it makes Bush sound like he wants to silence something "the people" have already started. And Gore closed it with exactly the words all Americans want to hear: "I would also be willing to abide by that result and agree not to take...
...Thursday, yet another court decision was added to the volatile mix that is the Florida election, this time from the Florida Supreme Court giving the go-ahead to Palm Beach County to continue with its hand count...
...votes being counted and thus may have hurt the vice president's chances of winning Florida. Thursday, in the Leon County Circuit Courthouse, Democrats are challenging Harris's decision to ignore the manual recount results achieved after the official deadline at 5 p.m. Tuesday (a separate suit from the Palm Beach County decision handed down by the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday...