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...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...
...Volusia County has made the point moot by sending the results of their hand count to Tallahassee about 25 minutes before the deadline. (In it, Gore apparently picked up 98 votes, knocking Bush's AP lead down...
...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...
...running after U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks ruled Monday afternoon that the counts could continue over Bush lawyers' objections. Secretary of State Katherine Harris, however, insists that the Tuesday-at-5 deadline for all recounts to be done is hard and fast. Of course the hand-counters, led by Volusia County (and now, says Warren Christopher, officially assisted by the Gore campaign because the Republican Harris is biased) are suing her for an extension. We're waiting for an answer...
...Harris's problem, and Bush's, is that Florida law allows for requested recounts, and a judge with little appreciation for good-of-the-nation atmospherics could easily conclude that it's common sense for the certification deadline to come and go before those recounts are done. (Volusia County, oddly, expects to have its recount completed in time, but an eager Palm Beach, Dade and others are waiting in the wings.) And then it's our problem too - a hand recount in Palm Beach or Dade could take weeks, and easily run up against that December 18 electoral college coven...