Election officials in the four Democrat-leaning counties undergoing manual recounts in Florida go to court today seeking to push back a deadline tomorrow for all counties to submit their vote tallies.
The deadline was set yesterday by Florida Secretary of State Jim Smith.
In addition, members of the Republican campaign will appear before U.S. District Judge Donald Middlebrooks today in an effort to halt the manual recounts.
After reviewing a 1-percent sample of ballots, the three-person Palm Beach canvassing board voted 2-1 early yesterday morning for a manual recount of the entire county. The Democrat campaign has also requested hand recounts in Dade, Broward and Volusia counties.
With 66 of 67 counties officially reporting, Republican candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush leads Democrat candidate Vice President Al Gore by 961 votes. An Associated Press survey, however, shows Bush leading with a 279-vote margin.
In the equally close race for New Jersey's 12th Congressional District, county clerks and election officials are continuing to count the estimated 2,500 provisional ballots — votes cast by people who changed address before Election Day.
Democratic incumbent Rush Holt and former Republican congressman Dick Zimmer both maintain they have the advantage, but as of Friday, Holt claimed he led by a razor-thin 178-vote margin. Neither candidate has declared victory, both having agreed to wait until the provisional ballots are counted.
Though the candidates had agreed to let the election process unfold without interference, the Zimmer campaign told The New Jersey Star-Ledger in yesterday's edition that approximately 100 ballots should be disqualified.
The Zimmer campaign is expected to go to court today in an attempt to disqualify 20 provisional ballots in Middlesex County — the campaign contends that the signatures on the affidavits do not match those on file — and 74 provisional ballots in Mercer County because the signed affidavits were not stapled to the front of the ballots.
(The Associated Press contributed to this report.)
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