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To: Selectric II who wrote (7727)	10/27/2001 7:14:39 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

He asked for only a minute number of demographically selected ballots that he thought would be reclassified to his benefit to be recounted. That's what the legal battle was all about. There was a legal failure in the Florida election laws. No procedure for a statewide recount existed; only county recounts could be requested. (So Gore asked for recounts in Democratic counties. What a shock) That lack, together with the fact that the election had been botched (so there were sizeable piles of potentially valid yet uncounted ballots sitting around) touched off the court fight. In Washington State, by contrast, election officials had actually counted all the ballots the first time around, manually inspecting them if they were rejected by the machines, so there was no pile of uncounted votes to fight over. So there was no legal fight in the Washington State Senator's race.