It's all just politics... Bush said keep it out of the courts, then went to Federal court. Now...(snipped) http://foxnews.com/election_night/111600/trail.sml # # The Florida Supreme Court, in a one-paragraph decision, denied # a petition by Florida Secretary of State Harris to halt manual # recounts in at least two counties and consolidate 11 lower-court # cases into a single one. The ruling gave elections officials # in Palm Beach and Broward counties reason to restart a hand count # of as many as 1 million votes. # # The Bush campaign has argued that the seven-member state panel # - filled entirely by Democrats - has no authority in the case. # "It's my opinion that the [Florida] Supreme Court has no # jurisdiction," said Barry Richard, a Bush legal adviser.