a little news from florida.....offically as of 6pm tonight with 53 out of 67 counties reporting their is a 1200 vote difference between Bush and Gore, however the networks are saying that 11 other counties have been contacted and have finished their recounts bring the difference between Bush and Gore to 362 votes with 64 out of 67 counties. As far as I have heard the 3 counties not reporting are 2 in southern florida (one containing the confusing ballots, where a hand count will begin saturday morning) and pinellas county (in the Tampa Bay area) where several vote from the highly democratic southern district of the county were not originally counted and several votes from the morthern republican portion of the county were counted twice.
Just thought you all might like to know what we floridians were hearing first thing.
.....another update.....as of 7:15 with 65 out of 67 counties reporting Bushs' lead is only 225 votes. Manatee and Seminole counties have yet to report
[This message has been edited by NewInFL (edited November 09, 2000).]
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