1.   A full recount might just as easily have left Gore ahead.

2.   Broward County election officials plan to do a hand recount of three precincts Monday before deciding about a full recount.

3.   Both said they simply had not found enough evidence in the recount of the sample precincts to justify going ahead with a full recount.

4.   But it was a far cry from the full recount that the Democrats had wanted.

5.   But Republicans fiercely opposed the change of plans, saying that unless a full recount was conducted, the public could not put trust the accuracy of the outcome.

6.   By trying to evade a full recount in Palm Beach, the Texas governor has invited the most dubious of comparisons.

7.   Harris said that because the county had failed to complete a full recount by the deadline, her office was only accepting the machine recount completed two weeks earlier.

8.   Gore attorney David Boies, however, said that there no requirement that a full recount be conducted, suggesting that only undervotes be retabulated.

9.   He said he was confident that a full recount would show that Gore had won Florida.

10.   In other words, he could have welcomed a full recount of the Florida ballots.