Word: recounter
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...Miami-Dade County reverses itself and decides to proceed with a full manual recount...
...Mechanical recount concludes; Bush leads Gore by 327 votes...
...Republican lawyers seek an injunction to block Broward County from conducting a manual recount. Circuit court judge John Miller rejects their request...
...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 in a full recount. That would change the election outcome...
...shouldn't be an impossible sell. Few of this pageant's 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...