1.   At least three predominantly Democratic counties agreed to the arduous task of manually recounting votes after the Gore camp complained of confusing and irregular ballots.

2.   A machine that undercounts votes has a Republican bias in a predominantly Democratic county and a Democratic bias in a predominantly Republican county.

3.   But assuming the Republicans would ask for recounts in only those counties with GOP majorities, Tully said he would then challenge results in traditionally Democratic counties.

4.   But the Democrats had their own aggressive and far-reaching plan to maximize Gore votes in Democratic counties, while suppressing likely Bush votes from overseas.

5.   But the Democrats were preoccupied elsewhere, particularly with their pursuit of manual recounts in several heavily Democratic counties.

6.   Cheney said it would not be fair to only hand count punch-card ballots from two heavily Democratic counties in Florida.

7.   County Clerk Gaylord Winter allowed this is pretty much a Democratic county.

8.   Democrats have requested hand counts in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia counties, all heavily Democratic counties.

9.   Demonstrators clamored to get into the building before the Miami-Dade canvassing board abruptly decided not to forge ahead with a recount in its heavily Democratic county.

10.   For several years now, Manton has watched his Democratic county become a reliable bastion for the Republican mayor.