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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Harvey Allen who wrote (65292)	11/9/2000 3:26:04 AM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769667

With recounts completed for 32 of Florida's 67 counties, Bush's lead had been reduced by roughly 800 votes, shrinking to less than 1,000 out of more than 5.8 million cast. Sowing further doubts about the outcome, an undetermined number of absentee ballots from Floridians living overseas have several more days to trickle in. But much of Wednesday's focus was on the state's Gold Coast, famous for its high-rise condos and legion of retirees. In Palm Beach County, election officials announced that Tuesday night more than 19,000 computer ballots had been disqualified because they had been punched for more than one presidential candidate. Democratic Party lawyers asserted the design of the ballot led to the confusion and that they may ask for a revote, which would cast the presidential race into further doubt.Democrats charged the confusion may not only have caused the double-punching that disqualified 19,121 ballots but also led some Gore supporters to vote for the Reform Party's Pat Buchanan by mistake. Three people filed suit Wednesday seeking a new election in the county, where Buchanan received 3,407 votes for president, more than he received in any other Florida county. "If all of our voters had been able to vote and all of our votes been counted, we wouldn't have been in this situation," said Bob Poe, chairman of the Florida Democratic Party.