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

To: Scrapps who wrote (71057)	11/12/2000 6:34:37 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- Palm Beach County election officials voted early Sunday to order a manual recount of all votes cast in the county during last week's presidential election. A full recount would involve reviewing more than 400,000 ballots by hand in one of South Florida's most populous counties. It was not immediately clear when such a recount would take place -- because Republicans are challenging recounts in Florida. Appearing before reporters about 1:30 a.m. Sunday, the county's three-person canvassing board voted 2 to 1 to ask for the hand recount after reviewing hundreds of ballots checked in four sample precincts in Palm Beach County. They had been asked by Democratic Vice President Al Gore's campaign to check for possible instances in which tabulation machines had failed to note marked ballots. Members Carol Roberts, a county commissioner, and Theresa LePore, the county's supervisor of elections, approved the motion for the full recount. Board chairman and Palm Beach County Judge Charles Burton voted against the motion because he said he preferred to first seek an advisory legal opinion from state authorities. Also Sunday, Volusia County was expected to begin a hand recount, while Broward and Miami-Dade Counties planned to begin similar efforts early next week. When the result of the recount in that Democratic stronghold was announced at 1:50 a.m. today, Democrat Al Gore had picked up 36 votes and Bush had lost three. Palm Beach County officials also voted early today to conduct a manual hand count of every ballot, a drastic measure that could require many days.