DEBORAH MARCHINI, CNN ANCHOR: The ballot battle in Florida hits the road today.</s>DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN ANCHOR: Let's check in with Linda as she follows the cruising chads.</s>LINDA STOUFFER, CNN ANCHOR: That's right, Deborah and David. Ballots will be on the move today, chads, dimples and all. Bill Delaney is in Palm Beach, Florida today checking on all the developments there. Bill, are those ballots packed up yet?</s>BILL DELANEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ballots on the move, but not just yet. We are here at the Emergency Operations Center in West Palm Beach where, within the hour, we expect all 462,000 ballots that were cast in Palm Beach County in election 2000 to head up the road toward Tallahassee. They will travel in a Ryder truck. They will be accompanied by two sheriff's vehicles and two sheriff's deputies. Now, there are 162,000 -- 462,000 ballots in 162 metal boxes. They were put in the metal boxes, secured overnight. We expect they're loading them into that Ryder truck as we speak, or maybe even completing that process. Each one of these cases weighs between 20 and 30 pounds so you're talking about carrying thousands of pounds of boxes and ballots. The trip up to Tallahassee about seven hours. It should get there by late afternoon. That's 24 hours ahead of the deadline set by the Leon County circuit judge. He want those ballots up there for use as possible evidence in the contest phase of this continuing post- election legal wrangling. The ballots will be handed over to the Leon County clerk. We'll have much more on this on "EARLY EDITION" coming up at the top of the hour. Back to you.</s>STOUFFER: We will see you then. Bill Delaney, thank you very much. Hard to believe it has come to this and we're not even sure if those ballots will be counted once they get to Tallahassee. A hearing on Saturday will decide that.
The Florida Vote: Palm Beach Ballots on the Move Ahead of Saturday Hearing