11.   Gore has demanded a hand recount in three heavily Democratic counties in the expectation that will make him the winner.

12.   Gore had counted on picking up several thousand votes in three heavily Democratic counties.

13.   Gore supporters have sought manual counts in four Democratic counties, Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, Broward and Volusia.

14.   Having backed the Democrats that far, the court also placed constraints on the recounts now taking place in three heavily Democratic counties.

15.   How could Bush counter that count of selected Democratic counties?

16.   In one of the two other heavily Democratic counties, Palm Beach, he has made little progress.

17.   In the most Democratic county in the state, San Francisco, five voters have signed up with the Reform Party so far.

18.   In mostly Democratic counties, canvassing boards tended to throw out those ballots.

19.   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.

20.   Last November, Hodgson became the first Republican in decades to win office in the largely Democratic county.