1.   Election officials and party representatives worked through the night, opening the sealed ballot boxes with knives and sorting ballots by hand.

2.   He and other Republican party supporters also complained about the large number of chads on the floor in the room where the ballots were being sorted.

3.   The ballots are sorted and examined by hand to ensure accuracy, and accuracy is something on which DeBeauvoir prides herself.

4.   The ballots were sorted into piles by a dozen clerks while angry party representatives scowled at them and objected several times.

5.   The people recruited at the last minute to sort ballots included a fire battalion chief who wore a Palm Beach County Rescue patch on his left shoulder.

6.   Florida officials begin sorting ballots for hand recount.

7.   In Tallahassee alone, officials instructed the judges to sort their ballots by candidate.

8.   Miami-Dade County mechanically sorted ballots by machine Sunday and began its hand count Monday.

9.   Miami-Dade County mechanically sorted ballots by machine Sunday in preparation for beginning its hand count.

10.   Six teams, divided by precinct, sorted the ballots into piles, one for each presidential candidate.