The real focus of today's manual recount is a block of  
  10,361 phantom Palm Beach County ballots that  
  named no president in Tuesday's election.   
  ...
    
  "There's no way all those people didn't vote for  
  president," said Monte Friedkin, head of Palm Beach  
  County's Democratic Party. "No offense, but do you  
  really think that people wanted to vote for the clerk of  
  courts but not the leader of our country?"  
  ...
    
  With so few votes separating the two candidates, the outcome of the presidential  
  election may indeed lie in the hands of the county workers who will spend today picking  
  one by one through the ballots -- especially if they find "dimples" or other marks  
  suggesting that uncounted votes were intended for Gore.