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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Volusia and Palm Beach counties (joined by the Gore team) file suit in Leon County circuit court to extend the 5 p.m. Tuesday deadline for certifying their results. The argument: since state law allows hand counts and since those under way may be completed after the deadline, the state should wait to certify results until the hand counts...
...Broward and Palm Beach counties ask the Florida Supreme Court if they can legally proceed with hand counts. Harris had ordered the counties not to; state attorney general Bob Butterworth (a Democrat) had advised the opposite...
...State circuit court judge Jorge Labarga rules that the Palm Beach canvassing board can accept "dimpled" or "pregnant" chads...
...lawyer Theodore Olson argues that the hand-count process is "selective, standardless, subjective, unreliable and inherently biased." Gore lawyer Bruce Rogow responds that the hand count is more accurate and actually increases democracy. Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, rejects the Bush argument, finding that election mechanics are a state, not a federal, issue...
...Secretary of State Katherine Harris certifies the election results minus the overseas absentee ballots, with Bush holding a 300-vote lead. She gives counties that are still doing hand counts and wish to amend their results until 2 p.m. Wednesday to submit their reasoning...