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TAPE_NUMBER: EF00/1313 IN_TIME: 18:25:05 - 19:09:25 // 19:30:44 LENGTH: 03:06 SOURCES: All APTN/POOL except shots 14-15 = ABC RESTRICTIONS: FEED: VARIOUS (THE ABOVE TIME-CODE IS TIME-OF-DAY) SCRIPT: English/Nat XFA In spite of the Thanksgiving holiday, Vice President Al Gore legal team filed an appeal in the Florida Supreme Court to force Miami-Dade County to restart their recount. Vote counters in Broward County, Florida didn't take the holiday off either, as their hand count went forward in order to make the Sunday deadline imposed by the state's highest court. Democrats filed an appeal on Thanksgiving Day asking the Florida Supreme Court to force Miami-Dade County officials to resume a manual recount it unexpectedly abandoned a day before. The Democrats first went to a state appeals court Wednesday night after the exhausted Miami-Dade election board stopped its counting - leaving Al Gore without a hope of picking up votes there and cutting into George W. Bush's lead in the state's presidential election. The state Supreme Court had set a 5 P.m. Sunday deadline for Miami-Dade and two other counties to get recount totals into the state so the election could be certified. Gore spokesman Doug Hattaway said Thursday the state high court was being asked to order the Miami-Dade board to resume and complete the full hand count or at least the 10,000 votes - those with possible indented chads that machines didn't read the first time. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Well, the law actually says that if you undertake a recount and find that there is enough discrepancy in the votes to effect the outcome of the election, the law actually requires you to do a hand recount. And the Miami-Dade board doesn't have the discretion there. And the Supreme Court ordered the canvassing board to count the votes. We don't think their deadline is an excuse to stop counting." SUPER CAPTION: Doug Hattaway, Gore Campaign Spokesman The Florida Supreme Court Spokesman says the justices are away from the courthouse today to celebrate Thanksgiving, but they are being given the Gore campaign's documents as soon as possible. SOUNDBITE: (English) "Vice President Gore's attorney filed a petition, a writ of mandate seeking other relief in the court. The court now has the matter under advisement. We have been contacting the justices wherever they are located, making sure that they get copies of this petition to read. The court is aware of the urgency of this particular matter, and will be doing the best it can to come up with a determination as quickly as possible." SUPER CAPTION: Craig Waters, Florida Supreme Court Spokesman Waters said the Bush attorneys would have a chance to respond to the brief if the claim is not rejected outright by the court. Election officials in Broward County, Florida are giving up their Thanksgiving holiday to continue the tedious but critical hand recount of contested ballots in the November 7 presidential election. Most of the county's ballots have already been counted, but 2 thousand remain in question as to who voters intended to vote for. UPSOUND: (English) "...But they voted for nothing else. And it would appear to me that if they took the trouble to go to the polling place on election day they would have voted for somebody, and it appears they voted for George Bush." SUPER CAPTION: Ballot inspector in counting room Officials are trying to determine if indentations on ballot cards accurately reflect voter intent. Normally, a hole is punched in the card when a vote is cast. But the Broward election officials are studying closely so-called dimpled, or pregnant, chads --those votes where the small perforated square was not released from the ballot card. Meanwhile, Texas Governor George W. Bush took a morning jog outside the governor's mansion in Austin. His running mate, Dick Cheney, was hospitalized yesterday in Washington, DC after suffering a mild heart attack. SOUNDBITE: (English) "I wish everybody, going to wish all my friends and family a happy Thanksgiving. And I wish you all a happy Thanksgiving. Beautiful day for it here in Texas." SUPER CAPTION: George W. Bush, Republican Presidential Candidate Bush has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to bar the use of hand-counted ballots in Florida's fiercely contested presidential election. Lawyers for the Republican candidate filed two appeals Wednesday with the highest U.S. court and asked the justices to grant quick review. However, they did not file any emergency request for an immediate halt to the recount. SHOTLIST: November 23, 2000 - Tallahassee & Broward County, Florida; Austin, Texas & File Tallahassee, Florida (APTN) 1. Exterior of Florida Supreme Court Building 2. Tight shot of Supreme Court frieze 3. Gore legal team walking boxes up courthouse steps 4. Cutaway 6. SOUNDBITE: Doug Hattaway, Gore Legal Advisor 7. Pan down to Waters at podium 8. SOUNDBITE: Craig Waters, Florida Supreme Court Spokesman Broward County (POOL) 9. Wide shot of counting room 10. Man looking at ballot 11. Judges inspecting ballot 12. UPSOUND: Ballot inspector in counting room 13. Observers in booth 13. Court reporter typing transcript File (ABC) 14. Zoom in to "hanging chad" 15. Extreme close-up of "dimpled chad" Austin, Texas (APTN) 16. Bush jogging away from governor's mansion 17. SOUNDBITE: George W. Bush, Republican Presidential Candidate 18. Bush walks into governor's mansion?