11.   Broward County officials began their hand recount Monday, and Miami-Dade officials are to meet on Tuesday to discuss how to proceed with one there.

12.   Broward County neared completion of its hand recount but recounts in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties were not expected to be completed until early next week.

13.   Broward County, which had stopped its hand recount, joined the request for the state Supreme Court to settle the matter.

14.   Bush partisans struck directly at that principle when they moved to bar the hand recounts, effectively disenfranchising thousands of voters.

15.   Bush aides have tried to stop the hand recounts under way in several counties, criticizing them as unreliable and potentially open to fraud.

16.   Bush, countering the vice president, vehemently rejected the accuracy of hand recounts.

17.   But Democrats said they were hopeful Harris would accept the results of the countywide hand recount.

18.   But her advocacy for a hand recount has drawn partisan fire on a national and county level.

19.   But his failure to immediately and aggressively demand hand recounts statewide may have cost him the presidency, a Palm Beach Post analysis shows.

20.   But Roberts said her only motive in seeking a hand recount was to make sure every voter was heard.