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This is how Roberts got her spotlight. As a county commissioner, she sits on the canvassing board, a job that most find dull but she enjoys because she likes to be in the action on election night. For her, the unending election night was heaven--and Palm Beach the red-hot center of paradise. After a sample of ballots were hand counted for an excruciating 17 hours and Gore picked up extra votes, Roberts did the math in her head: if he got 19 more votes from recounting only 1% of the ballots, he might get 1,900 more votes...
...commandeering the proceedings in Palm Beach, Roberts has become for Democrats what Harris has become for Republicans. Says county commissioner Mary McCarty, a Republican: "She's the Joan of Arc of the Democratic Committee right now." Other names haven't been so lofty--if they are at all printable. "You are such a Democratic hack," wrote a woman in one of 3,000 e-mails sent to Roberts. "People are laughing at you all over...
...Palm Beach County: County election officials were up in arms because Secretary of State Katherine Harris refused to accept their recount numbers after they missed the deadline at 5 p.m. Sunday. Gore lawyers argued those new calculations would have helped their candidate...
...judges - the wide and semi-passionate center of the electorate - believe that either Gore or Bush is trying to "steal" the election. Most are sympathetic to the idea of manual recounts, and those who followed the story over Thanksgiving weekend probably have some sense that the manual recount in Palm Beach, at least, did not get a fair shake. (Certainly a smirking Katherine Harris did Bush no p.r. favors by getting needlessly stingy with a legally flexible 5 p.m. deadline...
...order the hand recounts 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...