91.   In Palm Beach County, for example, Dytrych enraged Democrats when she advised the canvassing board to delay the manual recount on Tuesday.

92.   In his Monday ruling, Sauls concluded that there was no credible evidence that a manual recount would alter the outcome of the election.

93.   In that case, the justices in Washington sent back to the state court a decision extending a deadline to allow manual recounts.

94.   In the case of Miami-Dade, the under-vote was never inspected by the canvassing board, which abandoned its manual recount.

95.   In the meantime, Republicans asked the canvassing board for a set of guidelines to protect the integrity of the manual recount.

96.   In Tallahassee on Thursday evening, former U.S. Secretary of State James Baker, overseeing the recount for George W. Bush, reiterated his opposition to manual recounts.

97.   Indeed, the court, by allowing the counties to proceed with manual recounts, seems to accept the notion that such counts are legal.

98.   It also conflicts with the equal protection guarantee that the U.S. Supreme Court invoked in December when it halted a statewide manual recount and effectively handed Florida to Bush.

99.   It could rule on the constitutionality of the methods chosen for the manual recounts of so-called undervoted ballots where they have not been carried out previously.

100.   It allowed the continued counting of overseas absentee ballots and the manual recount of other votes, which spread Friday evening to a third heavily Democratic county.