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...Miami-Dade County is moving ahead; Volusia County may ask for more time too. Broward County, after ditching a proposed hand count Monday, is considering reconsidering. Palm Beach will start its own manual recount 7 a.m. Wednesday morning, with little chance of completing it on time for Friday night; partial returns may be an option. Said a frustrated canvassing board member: "We've wasted three days of counting, basically...
...upshot is that Palm Beach County, at the very least, has absolutely no chance of completing a manual recount in time to get the numbers in without Harris's help - and we know where she stands on late entries. Plus, the county's election results are on hold, pending some resolution of the half-dozen lawsuits over the "butterfly ballot." Which means that if Harris sticks to her deadline, the election in the State of Florida could be certified without the Palm Beach results. (Translation: Bush wins.) The county is still looking for a judge willing to rule...
...camp, which got neither what they wanted nor what they expected from Judge Lewis, there's plenty riding on the appeals process. The argument will be the same - that while the law may call for the 5 p.m. deadline, it also says counties have the right to the hand recount. Bush lawyers will argue that Judge Lewis was right - the discretion rests with the secretary of state...
...voters as well as their rivals, Baker is making the stop-the-madness argument again - "More and more we see uncertainty in financial markets, and uncertainty abroad." And also accusing the Gore camp of being "more focused on selectivity than fairness," both in choosing the counties to be recounted by hand and in what portion of Florida law it chooses to champion. Gore, Baker said again, wants to keep "counting and recounting until he gets the results he wants." And a statewide manual recount of all Florida's 67 counties, he said, would take "an inordinate amount of time...
...Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis at any moment. He also brushed off the market-uncertainty issue as the complaints of "parobably partisan investment bankers." Though the Gore people may feel differently if the deadline-extension lawsuit goes against them, they see no reason to stop a manual recount at 5 p.m. when it could still add more ballots to their man's tally. This round will be up to the courts...