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Elections continued from page 1 j “butterfly ballot” issue in Palm : Beach. < The vice president, too, went on television to stress the urgency and 1 accuse Bush’s legal team of stalling 1 in Florida — at the same time fil- 1 ing briefs along with Bush at the 1 U.S. Supreme Court in Washing- 1 ton. Bush and the Republicans “just want to run the clock out so the votes will not be counted,” Gore attorney Jeff Robinson said. In Tallahassee, Sauls began a hearing late Tuesday to deal with new legal briefs that seemed to ar rive almost hourly. A fast-paced schedule outlined by Gore’s lawyers would allow the Florida Supreme Court to hear any appeal and issue an order, if neces sary, by Dec. 9, three days before a Dec. 12 deadline for the state to choose its electors. Gore’s team first proposed ap pointment of a special master to scrutinize disputed ballots. But when the Bush lawyers objected, Gore’s attorneys came back with a plan for court clerks or judges in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties to conduct hand re counts of some 13,000 disputed presidential ballots. The action in Washington, meanwhile, involved a challenge brought by the Republicans to overturn a Florida Supreme Court ruling that came down on the side of re-counting votes beyond a deadline in state law. A hearing be fore the high court was set for Fri day. Gore’s team asked the high court to avoid interfering in Florida’s presidential re-count dispute, say ing the issue “does not belong in federal court.” Bush attorneys told the justices in their brief that it was the Florida Supreme Court ruling that was “in insistent with federal law.” In Tallahassee, Gore is contest ng Florida’s certification of Bush is the winner of the state and its lecisive 25 electoral votes. “The need for the judiciary to ranscend mob action in Miami is dear and urgent,” the state court notion said, reiterating a claim hat the canvassing board stopped :ounting ballots there because of ntimidation by Republicans. Bush attorney Fred Bartlit said here was no such intimidation. That’s the myth,” he said, idding later that, “There were no shouts, no pressure in the room.” A different judge, meantime, set i Dec. 6 trial date for challenges to results in Seminole County, where a Democratic activist has accused The central and indispensable witness to these proceedings is the ballots. They must be manually counted without further delay. Gore attorneys in a legal brief Republicans of tampering with ab sentee ballot applications and is seeking to have more than 15,000 votes thrown out. If that case is successful, it would cost Bush nearly 5,000 votes. In that courtroom, Bush attor neys enumerated all the cases pending in different courts and contended they couldn’t handle all the work so quickly. “We have several other cases pending, and although it may ap pear that I have an unlimited re source of lawyers, I do not,” attor ney Barry Richard said. “I can’t do three depositions at once.” Circuit Court Judge Nikki Clark told the Bush team: “I certainly have an appreciation for the inten sity of these proceedings.” But she ■ said the Seminole County case could not be allowed to “fall by the wayside,” and she refused to con solidate it with the election con test. Democrats suggested that the votes from two other counties be tallied by either the court clerks of Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties, the clerk of Leon County Circuit Court or judges of the Leon County Circuit Court, excluding the judge presiding over the case. “The central and indispensable witness to these proceedings is the bailots. They must be manually counted without further delay,” 1 Gore attorneys said in their legal I brief. in Miami-Dade County, Gore lawyers want a re-count of some 10.000 votes they said could not be read by a voting machine and were not hand-counted. But James Bak er, representing Bush in the voting disputes, said: “It’s incorrect to say that these votes haven’t been counted.” “They’ve been counted just like all of the other nonvotes, not only in counties in Florida but also in other counties across the United States,” he said. Aggressively fighting Gore ef forts to undermine the Florida count — showing Bush the winner by 537 votes — Bush expanded his legal team to include lawyers Richard, Bartlit, Philip Beck, Daryl Bristow and Irvin Terrell. Democrats also are challenging results in Nassau County, which would give Gore 52 more votes. 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