Word: manually
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After a flurry of court rulings, manual recounts continue in Florida, but it remains for the courts to decide whether revised numbers will be accepted. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris said she would not consider recounts certified after 5 p.m. Tuesday...
...Florida Supreme Court yesterday denied Secretary of State Katherine Harris' request to stop manual recounts in progress in several counties. Bush had joined the lawsuit early yesterday...
Broward began its hand count late yesterday afternoon, Palm Beach's recount is currently on hold pending legal resolution, and the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board voted 2-1 against a manual recount after a recount of three precincts only netted Gore an additional six votes. The commission sent a letter to Harris requesting that these six votes be included in the official totals...
...Here's what Gore was thinking. He knew that the Florida Supreme Court had earlier in the day upheld the right of counties to hold manual recounts. And he also knew that manual recounting holds a certain intuitive "will of the people" appeal that dovetails very neatly with his avowed populism. And so, in an ambush address cleverly timed to get live feeds on the network newscasts, lines like this were rolling across his Teleprompter...
...Broward, the most Democratic county in the state, a moving van full of ballots has pulled up to the Broward County Emergency Operations Center (built for hurricanes, but this'll do), and now the county that tested and rejected a manual recount (and then was sued by the Democrats to reconsider) is about to start playing the chad game...