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...right after Gore phoned Bush to retract his concession, Volusia County Judge Michael McDermott ordered the building that houses the election supervisors, as well as the Dumpsters outside, sealed. At one point during election night, hundreds of votes for Gore had disappeared from the computer count, though they reappeared later. There is a history of election disputes in Volusia, among them the 1996 re-election of sheriff Bob Vogel, when a controversial count of absentee ballots put Vogel ahead of an opponent he had trailed on election night. That led two years later to a Florida Supreme Court decision that...
...absentee votes still drifting in from abroad, which are not expected to be fully counted until this Friday. Even more important, because they could easily reverse Bush's narrow lead, are the manual recounts that have been approved by local electoral commissions in Palm Beach, Broward and Volusia counties...
Those results showed Gore continuing to narrow the ever-shrinking gap between the two candidates. Shortly before the 5 p.m. deadline, the Democratic stronghold of Volusia County finished its manual recount, awarding Gore a net gain of 98 votes. After a day of uncertainty caused by conflicting legal opinions, Palm Beach officials finally agreed to begin a full recount today, though whether the votes will be officially certified may be up to Harris. Miami-Dade County officials, after a sample recounting of one percent of the vote, decided not to hold a further recount...
...argument that if Democrats wanted to hand-count those ballots so badly - in selected Democratic-leaning counties, mind you - why haven't they started yet? The Bushies tried to stop them once in federal court, and lost. They tried to stop them in the state Supreme Court, and lost. Volusia County briskly hand-counted all its votes before the Tuesday deadline; what's stopping Palm Beach...
...Gore campaign says it won the ruling, based on its reading of the word "arbitrarily." With Volusia County standing in for them appeal-wise in the Florida Supreme Court over the 5 p.m. certification deadline, the message at 2:15 p.m. to eager counties from former secretary of state Warren Christopher and antitrust bigwig David Boies was, go ahead with the hand recounts. If results come in late, Boies said, Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris "has a duty to accept those reports unless she has a good reason not to." Needless to say, the Gore camp does...