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To: David Howe who wrote (53013)	11/9/2000 5:03:32 PM
From: johnd	Respond to of 74651

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To: David Howe who wrote (53013)	11/9/2000 5:16:10 PM
From: voyagers_stocktips	Respond to of 74651

FYI .... Bush's Lead In Fla. Narrows To 341 Votes; Gore Camp To Ask For Recount By Hand In Four Counties election.voter.com Bush Holds Narrow Margin In Florida Recount November 09, 2000 By DAVID ROYSE Associated Press Writer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - George W. Bush's shrinking lead over Al Gore, overseas ballots yet to arrive and demands for a revote in Palm Beach County left the presidential election in doubt even as a Florida recount neared completion. Results from 62 of the state's 67 counties gave Bush a lead of 341 votes out of nearly 6 million cast, according to an unofficial tally by The Associated Press. That was less than one-quarter the original margin of 1,784 votes. The recount, required under state law because of the close result, was to be completed Thursday nearly 48 hours after polls closed. But election officials said results won't be certified until at least Nov. 17 so at least 2,900 overseas ballots can be counted. While the outcome of the presidential race hung in the balance, allegations by Democrats of voting irregularities became increasingly angry. Gore campaign manager William Daley said courts may find the Florida result "an injustice unparalleled in our history." More than a thousand Gore supporters demonstrated outside a government building in downtown West Palm Beach, demanding another election in the county. They said the confusing configuration of their ballot cost their candidate votes. "Gore got more," they chanted. The Gore campaign claimed the ballots in Palm Beach County were illegal. Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan said "ineptitude" in ballot design may have caused many Democrats to vote for him inadvertently. "I have to think ... that Al Gore won Florida, and therefore won the nation and won the presidency of the United States," Buchanan told NBC's "Today" show. "When I took one look at that ballot ... it's very easy for me to see how someone could have voted for me in the belief they voted for Al Gore." Former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, dispatched by Bush to oversee the GOP team monitoring the recount, angrily told "Today" that Palm Beach County voters' rights were upheld. "That ballot was posted, as required by Florida law, in newspapers and public places anl over the state of Florida," Baker said. "And we haven't heard one gripe about that ballot until after the voting took place." Across the state, other allegations of voting improprieties ranged from missing ballots to problems with tabulations and intimidation of black voters. The Gore campaign requested that some 1.78 million ballots be hand-counted in Palm Beach, Volusia, Broward and Miami-Dade counties. Attorney General Janet Reno, a Florida native and former Miami prosecutor, pledged to review any complaint brought to her in the Florida ballot count, but said so far she has no reason to "jump in." State elections officials were still waiting for ballots cast by Floridians living overseas. The ballots must be postmarked by Election Day to count. But Democrats said the election may be decided in court. Palm Beach County voters filed three lawsuits, two in state court and one in federal court. An emergency hearing on the federal case lasted only a minute as a voter's attorney dropped the case without explanation. Palm Beach voter Kenneth Horowitz, owner of the Miami Fusion soccer team and a registered independent, filed a lawsuit along with two others. The suit claimed poll workers told voters they only had five minutes to cast their ballots, and anyone who took longer would have their ballot tossed out. Officials in the heavily Democratic county tossed out 19,120 ballots on election night because more than one presidential candidate was selected. Gore supporters blamed the ballot design. Confusion arose from the way the county's punch-card style ballot was laid out. Candidates were listed in two columns, separated by holes for punching. The top hole was for Bush, listed at the left; the second hole was for Buchanan, listed at the right; and the third hole was for Gore, listed under Bush on the left. Arrows linked the names with the proper hole, but some voters feared they punched the wrong hole. State law requires ballots to be designed so that voters mark their preference to "the RIGHT of the name of the candidate for whom you desire to vote." The word RIGHT is capitalized in the statute. The controversy prompted the emotional midday demonstration in West Palm Beach. Democrats noted that the 3,407 votes for Buchanan were by far the most of any Florida county, and almost 20 percent of his total vote in the state. "Our vote was stolen," Gore supporter Don Liftman said. "Three thousand Buchanan supporters in a county full of Jewish, condo residents? I don't think so." A few Republicans also attended the rally, among them George Ford, who waved a 6-foot-long Bush/Cheney sign. "To think this is going to be decided by a bunch of lawyers," Ford said, "is just a tragedy." ------------------ JMHO, FWIW .... Voyager