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...Electoral College vote was more split, with everything hinging on the all-important recount of nearly six million votes in the state of Florida, where the current margin of victory separating the candidates is less than 1,800 votes...
After months of frenetic activity, the Gore campaign spent yesterday quietly watching the historic recount develop. A team of 70 volunteers, including a large contingent of lawyers, was dispatched to the Sunshine State to monitor the recounting...
Nineteen Florida counties reported the first recount results late yesterday afternoon, accounting for 2,909,465 votes for Bush--a gain of 205 votes over previously estimated levels--and 2,907,722 for Gore, gaining him 238 votes. Florida suspended the recount for the night around 6 p.m. last night...
...Florida secretary of state promised the preliminary recount would be completed by 5 p.m. today--although either campaign can challenge those results in court...
...while the apparatus of election night is being removed, the question of the victor--and the recount--is hardly disappearing...