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sdfsd TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (Reuters) - As Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites) fought in Florida's courts to claim the presidency and publicly reiterated his belief that he won more votes there than Republican George W. Bush (news - web sites), state lawmakers were deciding on Wednesday whether to intervene in the protracted dispute. Florida's Republican-led Legislature, concerned the legal battle might not be over by a critical Dec. 12 deadline, resumed debate on calling a special session to select the state's 25 electors who will cast the decisive votes in the Electoral College (news - web sites) that will determine the next U.S. president. Bush was certified on Sunday as winner of the presidential election in Florida by 537 votes over Gore out of almost 6 million cast, a victory that would hand him the 25 electoral votes he needs to become the 43rd president of the United States. Gore has challenged the certification in the courts, claiming irregularities in three Florida counties and is seeking to have thousands of votes he says were never counted reviewed in hope of gaining enough new votes to win the state. Gore, in an interview on NBC's ``Today'' show, said he believed the majority of people in Florida voted for him and running mate Joseph Lieberman (news - web sites), and he gave himself even odds of prevailing in his contest of the state's election results. ``I believe we are going to win this election,'' Gore said. ``I think (the odds) are still fifty-fifty. I think the law is so clear in Florida that the votes are going to have to be counted.'' But a new poll showed public support waning for Gore and a majority of American voters believing he should concede. In the state capital, Tallahassee, a newly created Florida Legislature committee of eight Republican and six Democratic lawmakers may decide by Wednesday afternoon to call a special session -- a move they say is vital to ensure Florida is represented in the Dec. 18 Electoral College vote and its citizens are not disenfranchised. ``I think our primary purpose is to make certain we are represented and we do have a slate of electors. And I think that would be a travesty if we are not represented,'' said state Sen. Daniel Webster, a Republican. A state legislature basically rubber-stamps the slate of electors nominated from whichever party's candidate wins the state's popular vote. The Republican-controlled Legislature in Florida wants to have its own slate of electors in place in case the election is still tied up in court on Dec. 12. The lawmakers were hearing public testimony from voters and polling workers. Rev. Richard Harris, a Baptist minister from Palm Beach County, urged the Legislature to ``do what's right'' and said any effort to seat a separate slate of electors would make the legislators ``no better than thieves.'' Bush Makes Counter Bid In Ballots Case As the fight for the U.S. presidency dragged into a fourth week, Gore lawyers prepared for hearings in Leon County Circuit Court and the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites), and attempted to compress the legal process enough to reach a definitive conclusion by Dec. 12 and alleviate the need for Florida's lawmakers to act. Attorneys for Bush asked a Florida judge on Wednesday to order that all 1.16 million presidential ballots cast in disputed Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties be shipped to Tallahassee for possible recounting, not just the 14,000 disputed ballots requested by the Democrats. Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls granted a request by Gore's attorneys Tuesday for 10,750 ballots from Miami-Dade and 3,308 from Palm Beach County be shipped to the court and held until a Saturday hearing on a possible recount. Bush's attorneys want any recount to include all the ballots cast in the two counties, nearly 700,000 in Miami-Dade and 462,000 in Palm Beach County. Miami-Dade's heavily armed police SWAT team -- usually called out to deal with rogue gunmen and hostage crises -- will escort that county's ballots to the court. Judge Sanders Sauls dealt Gore a setback on Tuesday when he refused to accept the vice president's accelerated schedule and set a hearing for Saturday, a day after the U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on a Bush appeal seeking to invalidate all hand-counted ballots. Bibliography:

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