Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...their "days not weeks" p.r. reassurance, are in no hurry to finish their case today. In fact, once Harris certifies an official victory for Bush on Saturday, Boies said he'll have an even better case to have that certification overturned. Because in Boies' reading of the Florida law, hand counts are legal if they can "change or place in doubt the outcome of the election," he said. "We think the evidence is pretty clear that the number of votes in question is sufficient" to do that...
...Here's the plan: The Gore camp will wait for Bush's final Saturday margin - it's now at 321, according to the AP - and then fight tooth and nail to keep those hand counts going until they find margin-plus-one votes for Al Gore...
...While Harris's numbers are still on track to be the official ones, the recount numbers are bound to start hitting the airwaves soon. Unless the Florida Supreme Court halts the recounts out of hand - almost unimaginable a day after they let them proceed - sooner or later Broward or Palm Beach may well deliver the news that the rerecounts have put Al Gore in the lead. And that's when the p.r. war gets really bloody...
...circuit court of appeals to pass their appeal of Lewis's decision directly to the Florida Supreme Court. They have reason to be optimistic. After the Supremes gave Palm Beach County explicit permission to begin a manual count Thursday - perhaps heeding the county's statistical evidence that a hand count could affect the outcome of the election - they may not be inclined to see that hand count go to waste...
...turned up 21 more votes for Gore than for Bush. Palm Beach County, having got its last pat on the back from the Florida Supremes Thursday, has just begun. Miami-Dade County, under heavy pressure from the Democrats, is set Friday to reconsider its decision not to undergo a hand count. And Republican stronghold Collier County, which merely found 25 ballots lying around and wants to slip them into the total, is still wondering whether Harris will have any use for them...