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...lady certainly had a firm grip on her discretion. The Florida Supreme Court had given her a nice out - if a timid but honest canvassing board like Palm Beach's (we know they're honest because Gore is suing them in the morning) wasn't going to finish on time, she could give them 16 more hours if the Secretary of State's office was closed on Sunday...
...only turned down Palm Beach's request for the extra time and kept her office wide open and bustling with lawyers all day, she then handed Lieberman a few lines for his speech by certifying only the original machine-count results and blithely moving...
...Broward County, now done with its ballot-by-ballot scrutiny of 1,800 disputed ballots, has turned up 583 net votes for Gore. Palm Beach, about half-done with its own stack of 9,500 questionables, has turned up a net of 46 for Gore. For a while, the canvassing board thought it wouldn't be done in time, and sent an extension request to Katherine Harris. Legally, Harris could play it cool by not showing up for work and just letting Palm Beach turn in its numbers Monday morning. Nobody's expecting her to do that, though...
...Whatever number they wind up with may not be good enough for Al Gore. David Boies, the veep's head lawyer and best spinner, says he'll get up early on Monday morning and add Palm Beach to next week's Miami-Dade fight - because he doesn't like the way the dimpled chads are being treated by the county's canvassing board. (They're being counted, but only if the voter poked some other dimples...
...counting houses, the three-headed, magnifying-glass-wielding canvassing boards in Broward and Palm Beach both swear they'll be done picking over their "questionable" piles by the Sunday 5 p.m. deadline. Broward, with a quarter of its 2,000 undervotes counted, has turned up 271 net votes for Gore; Palm Beach, just beginning its own 10,000-vote stack, has turned up 14. No Lotto yet for Gore...