31.   Palm Beach is not counting most dimpled ballots.

32.   Rep. Clay Shaw, a Florida Republican whose district includes Palm Beach, said trying to divine the will of a voter from a dimpled ballot is subjective.

33.   Separately, a court hearing Wednesday morning in West Palm Beach will focus on whether the canvassing board should be ordered to count most dimpled ballots.

34.   Texas law permits the counting of dimpled ballots in a hand recount of a state election.

35.   The board should examine the dimpled ballots, instead of automatically excluding them.

36.   The court allowed manual recounts to continue in Democratic counties, and without saying so explicitly, it strongly hinted that dimpled ballots should be part of the count.

37.   The Broward canvassing board, which will review those ballots, has voted to count the dimpled ballots.

38.   The county canvassing board counted hundreds of dimpled ballots as votes.

39.   The justices could insist, for example, that the Florida Supreme Court specify standards for evaluating the ballots, such as whether to count dimpled ballots.

40.   The number of dimpled ballots for Bush would be matched up to dimpled ballots for Gore, the hanging chads for one versus the hanging chads for the other.