Word: handing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...this week, it will be up to Harris to sift through the inevitable clamor from the hand-counters encouraged by Gore campers to turn in their results and never mind the afternoon ruling putting Harris in charge. Democrats are out in force declaring Harris too partisan (she was co-chair of Bush's campaign in Florida), and making very loud noises about how Harris would be in clear violation of the order if she turns any count-amending counties away hungry...
...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...
...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 not see any good reasons...
...sorry to keep you all waiting," court administrator Terre Cass before delivering the Gore camp - and the Florida counties determined to get hand-recounts into the official tally - the bad news. The judge gave Harris discretion for including "supplemental or corrective returns" before the final deadline of midnight Friday, but said she "must not do so arbitrarily...