Word: handing
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...hand recounts drag on in Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, canvassing officials have run into a substantial number of ballots whose punch holes are not actually punched, but are sort of poked or prodded or rendered somehow concave. Democratic observers are pushing vote counters to include those indented ballots (most of which appear to favor the Gore-Lieberman ticket) in the state's ultimate tally. At least 300 dimpled ballots have been set aside in Palm Beach County, where they await orders from Florida's Supreme Court. On Tuesday night, the court appeared to have not addressed...
...Boies argued that the only discretion Secretary of State Katherine Harris really needs is to make sure her office can muster a final answer in time for Dec. 12. And since her duties are merely a "ministerial act" - a contention the Bush team later appeared to confirm - certainly the hand counts could go on until, say, December 9 or so without serious damage to the rights of the Florida electorate...
...next line was between machine counts and hand counts. In the case of serious machine error, of course Harris would use that discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...case, the Bush team argued, the Florida law was "agnostic" whether machine counts or manual counts were better or fairer. If a candidate and a county wanted to count by hand, that was fine - they'd just better get it done in seven days if they wanted to be sure it would be included. The Bush team held up Volusia County, which merely hand-counted and filed to Harris without controversy, as a shining example. It seemed to impress the Justices more than Boies' arguments why the other counties had taken so long to start...
...toward manual recounts - do them or don't do them, just get them in on time - occasionally tripped them up with seven judges who have been at least perusing the papers. (Justice Barbara Pariente, almost absurdly, even tried to nail Bush heavy-lifter Michael Carvin on Bush's Texas hand-count law.) At one point, in the middle of his "contest" argument, Carvin had to say whether the current hand counts would proceed beyond a Harris certification. "No" was not the answer this court was looking...