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To: Jim Willie CB who wrote (23539)	12/9/2000 9:07:31 AM
From: locke_1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 65232

Morning JW... It seems that all undervotes from 60 counties are to be completed by 2.00 p.m. Sunday. Sure looks as though the court is confident that it can do so. But do you or anyone have any idea as to what criterion they are using? I couldn't find that.... Regards.... Saturday December 9 8:22 AM ET Recount Set to Begin in Contested Florida Election TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - Court clerks prepared Saturday to begin the tedious task of manually recounting about 9,000 votes cast in Miami-Dade County, considered Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites)'s best chance to erase Republican George Bush (news - web sites)'s razor-thin lead in the contested election. The recount, which county officials expect to take about nine hours and plan to complete later in the day, was ordered by the Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) Friday in a stunning legal victory for Gore that could reverse Florida's certified results and give him the state's pivotal 25 electoral votes and the White House. ``We're wanting to get it done as quickly as possible,'' said Dave Lang, the chief clerk of the Leon County Circuit Court, which is overseeing the recount of the Miami-Dade votes. ``We'll wrap it up today.'' The clerk's office, drawing on a contingency plan set up when the votes were initially contested, organized 32 teams of two clerks each, which will work out of a large conference room in the public library in Tallahassee, the state capital. The ballots were transferred to the library from the state Supreme Court, several blocks away, about half an hour before the count was set to begin. After a brief orientation session on how to divine voter intent from the dimpled, indented and partially punched chads on ballots that voting machines failed to count, the clerks will open the first locked ballot box and begin the recount. Republican attorneys have asked for emergency court orders from the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) and the Florida Supreme Court to block the recounts. Briefs were due at the U.S. Supreme Court on the issue at 7 a.m. EST Saturday, lawyers said during a late-Friday court hearing. A separate appeal also is pending in the federal appeals court in Atlanta. The Florida case was taken over late Friday by Leon County Circuit Judge Terry Lewis, who was in court until about 11:30 p.m. EST Friday hearing from attorneys for both candidates and deciding how the recount would proceed. Judge Sanders Sauls, whose Monday refused to order a recount, recused himself after the higher court overturned his decision. Along with the recount in Leon County, elections officials in about 60 Florida counties were ordered by noon EST to inform Lewis how they would recount their so-called undervotes, or ballots on which machines recorded votes for other elections but not for president. Those counties also were ordered to complete their recounts by 2 p.m. EST on Sunday and report results to the elections officials in Tallahassee. Earlier in the day, Lewis had issued a ruling in a separate lawsuit rejecting a bid by a Democratic supporter to invalidate thousands of absentee ballots because a Martin County elections supervisor allowed Republican volunteers to alter applications for the ballots.