Word: manually
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...mantra of local control, this is like trashing the big bully behind his back and then enlisting his services when you get in a brawl. You'll notice that the Bush campaign called the Florida Supreme Court an "instrument of the Democratic party" when it agreed to let the manual count continue, but were silent about the court's bias when it rejected Gore's emergency appeal to force Miami-Dade to resume its recount...
Republicans believe that the court should enforce state law, which says that manual recounts be completed within seven days of the election. Democrats are petitioning the court to extend the deadline due to extraordinary circumstances and the fact that the counties began recounting a full six days after the election, effectively making it impossible for large counties to certify their ballots by the deadline...
...court set the stage for yesterday's hearing last week when it ruled that Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris could not certify the official tallies until it had ruled on the matter of the manual recount...
...With manual recounts still incomplete, the Gore vote has increased by a net total of 96 votes. If approved, this would cut Bush's lead to 834. Recounts are already underway in the large, Democratic-leaning counties, Palm Beach and Broward. Another manual recount may begin in the large Miami-Dade County. If continued without disruption, county officials said they expected the count to conclude...
...while the ruling was a victory for Al Gore, this is hardly the end of the story. Embedded in the ongoing mathematics of the manual recounts is the sticky issue of the now-famous "dimpled chad." Admittedly, the vocabulary of this morass has reached positively absurd levels. But stick with us here, because it's the concave marks of the dimpled chad that could ultimately decide this prolonged presidential battle...