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...supported the recount until last night, but now it's too destabilizing to the country if it continues," she said...
...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...
...background: On Tuesday, Nov. 21, the Florida Supreme Court ruled that the recounts were to continue, and the results were to be included in the final state tally. The Bush legal team immediately filed an appeal to the United States Supreme Court, which agreed to hear opening arguments from both campaigns. And while everyone involved in the case was duly awestruck by the prospect of an audience with the U.S. Supreme Court, the Justices' ultimate decision may end up meaning little, especially when compared to the more immediate and pressing decisions facing Florida's state courts. After all, even through...
...Gore's effort to overturn the result of the presidential election in Florida was dealt a severe blow on Monday afternoon when Leon County Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls refused to 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...
...Nassau County: The canvassing board reverted to election-night tallies after discovering that a ballot-counting machine had malfunctioned during the recount. A recount in Nassau is likely to produce more votes for Bush than for Gore, but that hasn't stopped the Gore legal team from stepping in and demanding updated numbers...