Republican demonstrators celebrate in Miami after receiving word that the local election board voted unanimously to suspend the county's hand recount. More than 2,500 sign-waving Republican demonstrators gathered Saturday in Pensacola, Fla., to hear speeches from Republican lawmakers.
Protesters try to stop Miami recounts.
Another 400 Republicans gathered to hear former presidential candidate Bob Dole speak in support of Bush. In Washington, D.C., outside the Vice President's residence, about 300 chanting Bush supporters faced about 30 Gore supporters. But the most controversial action continues in Fort Lauderdale, where a group of Republican Party workers in a motor home, accused by Democrats of intimidating the Miami-Dade election board into quitting their recount, are involved in protests outside the courthouse where Broward County is finishing its manual recount. On that day, in an apparent exercise of spontaneous public outrage, pro-George W. Bush demonstrators surged through the county office building in Miami, demanding an end to the hand recount there. The shouting demonstrators accused Democratic election officials of stealing ballots behind closed doors, and apparently contributed to one election supervisor's vote to end the hand recount.