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The court set Monday morning for arguments on Gov. George W. Bush's appeal of the Florida Supreme Court ruling that ordered manual recounts across the state of ballots that initially showed no vote for president.
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The question that the justices agreed to hear -- whether, by ordering manual recounts to be included in Florida's certification, the state Supreme Court has usurped the role of its legislature in setting electoral procedures -- seems to turn fundamentally on the meaning of state law.
The court ordered all manual recounts to begin at once.
The local electoral committee ordered a manual recount of all invalidated votes.
Mr. Boies argued and won the initial case before the Florida Supreme Court, which on Friday ordered statewide manual recounts of ballots.
Second, the Florida court ordered a manual recount of "undercounted" ballots that could not have been fully completed by the Dec. 12 "safe harbor" deadline.
And then the Florida Supreme Court ordered a manual recount of ballots on which the state's machines did not register a vote for president.
Governor Bush had filed the urgent application for a stay on Friday night, hours after the Florida Supreme Court reversed a lower state court and ordered statewide manual recounting of tens of thousands of ballots.
In overturning the decision of Judge N. Sanders Sauls, the court ordered the manual counting of some 9,000 disputed ballots in Miami-Dade County as well as possibly tens of thousands of similar ballots statewide.
To have any prospect of emerging from this case with something other than a complete loss, David Boies, Mr. Gore's lawyer, needed to persuade Justices Sandra Day O'Connor and Anthony M. Kennedy that the Florida Supreme Court acted within its authority last Friday when it ordered the manual recount.
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