1.   And Al Gore, the old election kleptomaniac, what a wonderful PR decision, challenging the overseas military ballots.

2.   Aufhauser decided that the Republicans would try to push this argument further than it had ever been pushed before to get military ballots counted.

3.   - Also pending in Florida were suits filed by the Bush campaign in several counties alleging that overseas military ballots were wrongly excluded from vote tallies.

4.   Bush renewed Republican criticism that Democratic officials had improperly excluded overseas military ballots.

5.   Bush will gain votes from non-postmarked overseas military ballots that have been declared legal since the statewide returns were certified.

6.   County election officials who tabulated overseas ballots on Friday and Saturday rejected hundreds of military ballots for a variety of reasons.

7.   Democrats said military ballots were fewer than half of those discarded statewide, while Republicans said they were more than half.

8.   Democrats countered that Republicans set out to keep military ballots in the count even when they should have been thrown out.

9.   Democrats on Saturday countered that Republicans had set out to keep military ballots in the count even when they were plainly illegal.

10.   Elections officials also rechecked overseas ballots to ensure that no military ballots had been improperly excluded, as Republicans have alleged.