71.   Harris acknowledged that her decision is likely to set off a court battle over the manual recount, which had been requested by the Gore campaign.

72.   He got a manual recount, but he said it was done too quickly to catch many of the partly indented holes in punch-card ballots.

73.   He has asked for manual recounts of disputed punch card ballots in three counties.

74.   He also said a legal contest to an election was never supposed to in- clude manual recounts of ballots.

75.   He said taking more time for a manual recount is a common and reasonable technique, much like looking more closely at the film of a photo finish.

76.   He said they hoped to finish the manual recount by Monday night.

77.   He was referring to a hearing before U.S. District Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks on requests by the Bush campaign to block manual recounts.

78.   His ruling favored the Democrats who wanted the manual recount to go forward.

79.   His lawyers have argued that manual recounts, especially in counties that favored Gore, are unfair and less reliable than machine counts.

80.   How much of the undercount in Miami-Dade was counted in the second manual recount after the sample recount.