roberts 
thanks for looking in the arguments are done the arguments that may well decide the presidency and of course that uh disputed florida recount issue 
the u. s. supreme court is weighing what it heard today from attorneys for al gore and george w. bush the issue whether the supreme court in tallahassee overstepped its bat overstepped its bounds when it ordered a hand recount of forty two thousand votes throughout the state 
while both sides presented their oral arguments protesters on the courthouse steps let their voices be heard 
supporters for bush and gore waved placards with competing slogans like five to four 
no more gore 
and don't bushwhacked 
the u. s. a. 
the mood inside the courtroom of course decidedly more uh deck or a sense summer attorneys on the republican side argued that florida's certified results giving bush the wind should stand 
and they also said the democrats are putting too broad interpretation undetermined in the intent of the voters based on the look of the ballots but justices scalia and soon or question the bush team's own standards on that issue 
@reject@ that there is no long 
when a mission does not count those ballots that it's not supposed to for that's absolutely correct justice scalia's @reject@ detached the chads entirely 
and the machine has predicted does not count those kids were those instructions are not followed there is an annual 
that's correct 
they've been you come to this has been euphemistically was euphemistically referred to as is people votes that haven't been counted these are ballots where that the system created by florida both with respect to the initial tabulation and the preferred system for the recount the automaker recount in close elections is to submit those ballots to the same a cannibal school lunch meat and bone objective scrutiny that the that the initial loss tell was done 
um 
and those are count those were not counted