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...According to briefs filed Wednesday at the Supreme Court, the Bush team views their looming appearance before the Justices as nothing less than a test of the complete post-vote process. Their argument holds that if SCOTUS finds the Florida Supreme Court acted outside its jurisdiction in extending the recount tally deadline - that it does not, in their view, have the power to override preexisting election laws - the Court has simultaneously nullified Gore's contest of the Florida election results...
...Friday, Dec. 8 (?) If Sauls rules for Gore, that's the projected end of the Miami-Dade undervote hand count. (As we know by now, it's an approximate target at best.) Gore may have help from his demand for a recount of the hand recount in Palm Beach (not enough dimples, says the Gore team), and the thousands of absentee ballots in Seminole and Martin counties are a wild card. But by the end of next week, Gore will need the numbers or he'll likely be told to go back to Tennessee, with any remaining "clouds" over Bush...
Some students feel it is unlikely Gore will win even if the recount is extended...
...Myth" No. 2: That Miami-Dade would have conducted a manual recount "if it wasn't for a Republican mob." Litigation specialist Fred Bartlit in charge...
...line: "No one at no time declared these votes illegal," Bristow said. The 218 votes at issue "were real votes by real people" (sound familiar?) and the Nassau canvassing board "discovered on machine recount that these votes were not counted," so they went with their original total. Simple as that...