Word: recounter
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...Reportedly wary about entering politics six years ago - she had worked in commercial real estate before running successfully in 1994 for state senate - Harris has apparently found her groove. And not a moment too soon: After Jeb Bush recused himself from the Florida recount procedures, state law thrust Harris into the limelight. Her first task? Trying to convince observers that she can, in fact, serve impartially in the most treacherous political minefield in memory...
...There's sure to be a paragraph in those newspaper stories about Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris' own press conference two hours later, in which she held the line on hand recounts: No county had sufficiently justified its reason for a manual recount, and therefore the certification process will end Saturday as scheduled. No deal...
...Then, a counteroffer, a kind of sweetener, in case Bush is reluctant: Manually recount all 67 Florida counties, which "we believe... can be completed within seven days of the time it starts." He'll abide by that result too. Brilliant - two reasonable-sounding solutions to a mess Americans are wearying of, and both of them lawyer-free...
...With the 2 p.m. deadline for "Why I Want a Recount" notes come and gone, Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris has received letters of justification from Palm Beach County, Broward County, Miami-Dade County, and - who knew? - Collier County, in the Naples area...
...Broward, the most Democratic county in the state, a moving van full of ballots has pulled up to the Broward County Emergency Operations Center (built for hurricanes, but this'll do), and now the county that tested and rejected a manual recount (and then was sued by the Democrats to reconsider) is about to start playing the chad game...