Broward began its hand count late yesterday afternoon, Palm Beach's recount is currently on hold pending legal resolution, and the Miami-Dade County Canvassing Board voted 2-1 against a manual recount after a recount of three precincts only netted Gore an additional six votes. The commission sent a letter to Harris requesting that these six votes be included in the official totals.

In accordance with Tuesday's ruling by Leon County Circuit Court Judge Terry Lewis, Harris set a 2 p.m. Wednesday deadline for requests by counties that wished to pursue a hand count. Broward and Palm Beach counties, which are in the process of tabulating votes, and Miami-Dade county, which decided against a hand count, filed requests for the extension of Tuesday's 5 p.m. certification deadline with Harris.

Collier County, in southwest Florida, discovered 24 additional absentee ballots that had not been counted. Collier County officials hoped to get Harris' permission to count the ballots and amend their results.

But Harris last night said she would not waiver from her deadline.

"The reasons given in the requests are insufficient to warrant waiver of the unambiguous filing deadline imposed by the Florida Legislature," she said at a press conference at 9 p.m. last night, thus denying the counties' petitions.

Bill Daley, Gore Campaign Chair, called the decision "rash" in light of the pending legal matters.

"We will pursue legal action to ensure that notwithstanding this uncalled action the hand counts continue under the preexisting court decisions," he said.