Bush, Gore Lawyers Face Off in Fla. Court

Dec. 3 -- — Lawyers representing Al Gore and George W. Bush are slated to square off again in a Tallahassee courtroom starting at 9 a.m. after a day of arguments about chad, statistical voting probabilities and the physical properties of rubber.

At issue is whether to begin a new round of manual ballot recounts in Florida’s presidential election dispute, aspects of which have been argued all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls is presiding over the vice president’s unprecedented contest of a state’s certified presidential election results — a tally that gave the Texas governor a slim, 537-vote margin of victory.

After Democrats and Republicans each presented opening arguments and two witnesses on Saturday, Republican lawyers said they expect to present five or six more witnesses and wrap up their case today.