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...course of five and a half hours, the GOP called five witnesses. Three discussed the alleged irregularities they personally observed during the Miami-Dade recount process - including dropping ballot boxes, fanning the ballots like cards, doing pretty much everything short of taking the ballots along with them to the bathroom - apparently hoping to establish the fallibility of human hands when it comes to counting ballots and to discredit the idea of recounting once again...
...praise the work of election workers. A good thing, too, because toward the end of the day, a real-life election worker took the witness stand. Nassau County election supervisor Shirley King sat down to defend her decision to certify the initial machine vote versus the mandated hand recount. Dignified and soft-spoken, King gritted her teeth toward the end of her testimony, telling a Democratic lawyer: "I sent the first numbers because the second numbers were wrong. I'd be very happy to recount the ballots - and I've offered to do so - just to prove the first numbers...
...court adjourned for lunch, Zack crowed to the press outside: "Their witness just told Judge Sauls to recount those votes...
...ranks? Cheney has perfected the shrug on this issue, but he might consider a loud plea for the local folks to wait a week - the last thing Bush needs right now is another reason to look illegitimate. (Next-to-last: the emerging GOP fight for a hand recount in New Mexico...
...There was great camaraderie between Sauls and Burton; at one point, Burton shook his head over his attempt to prescribe some order to the Palm Beach recount, saying, "I've been attacked since then as the one who?s tried to block the recount." Sauls took issue with this and replied warmly, "Well, I can?t say I agree. I personally salute you as a great American," eliciting the first smile from an exhausted-looking Burton...