Despite the legal challenges
Bush Says He's Our Next President
Florida's Republican controlled Legislature arranged to meet in special session Wednesday to consider naming a slate of 25 electors for Bush to protect against any court decision erasing his victory.
Despite the legal challenges, Republicans continued to prod the vice president to abandon his challenge.
"George W. Bush is rightfully our president elect," Ohio Gov. Bob Taft said in the
GOP's weekly radio address. "We should not prolong a constitutional impasse that could prevent the timely transition of presidential power."
Gore spent a quiet day in Washington, chatting over lunch with actor Tommy Lee Jones, his college roommate and longtime friend.
Meanwhile, the vice president's lawyers tried to persuade Air Max 2014 Uk a judge in Tallahassee to count 14,000 disputed ballots from South Florida.
Attorney David Boies said the contested ballots in heavily Democratic Palm Beach and Miami Dade counties could "place in doubt" Bush's 537 vote victory margin certified by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Gore previously has predicted he would win if all the votes were counted.
Bush's attorneys filed counter motions and said any recount should Air Max 2013 Uk be expanded to include all votes cast in Volusia and Broward counties, where Gore benefited from recanvasses shortly after the election.
Bush's lawyers also sought to negate a Seminole County lawsuit filed by Democrats to throw out about 15,000 absentee ballots, which would cost Bush a net of 4,797 votes.
Kimball Brace, an election expert called by Gore's side, said a hand count is the "only way of finding out exactly how many votes were cast" for each candidate.
Brace, president of Election Data Services, tried to show various ways Floridians intending to vote for Gore could have failed to fully punch their ballots, instead creating impressions called dimples.
Under cross examination by Bush lawyer Phil Beck, Brace acknowledged that indentations could also have resulted simply the handling of the ballots.
"If I were to rub my finger across it, that could create an indentation and that obviously should not be counted as intention to vote," Brace testified.
Gore's lawyers also presented testimony from a statistician, Nicolas Hengartner of Yale University. Sunday.
The day ended with testimony by an expert in rubber and plastics, Richard
Grossman, who was called by Bush's attorneys to talk about material
used in voting machines.
Bush retreated to his ranch, meeting with House Speaker Dennis
Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott to discuss Republican
legislative priorities for the new Congress.
The meeting appeared
intended to project an aura of inevitability of a Bush presidency,The governor expressed concern about a "potential slowdown" in
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