One of the big topics, and the only thing Bush and Gore agree on, is that the election results can't be final until the overseas absentee ballots come in and are counted. again and again we hear about the magic ten days from election day in which these ballots may arrive and be counted, but what is their current status?

Obviously some of these ballots, in all likelyhood a significant majority of them, have already arrived and only a trickle should still be coming in for the next 6 days. Have the ballots that have already arrived been incorporated into the Florida vote tallies? It's clear that there are enough of them to swing more than 350 votes, and that this alone should stop anyone from declaring a victory, ballot irregularities and court cases or no.

Does anyone know if the current totals bouncing around on TV include any overseas ballots, or are they waiting until they're all in, counting them all at once, then laying down the bombshell news?

It's amazing how the TV and interactive networks focus on the active dramas, and gloss over the news which may be more sognificant, just because it doesn't have screaming emotional people behind it.