"They had some 10 precincts in FL Palm Beach County that had a total of 1200 Repub's registered ....
And out of those some 1200-odd repub voters, NONE (!) had a "counted" valid vote cast for Bush in 2000."
That is astounding! Do you have links to that data? I'd love to share it with a friend of mine who has written about the Florida recount.
I've seen voting totals for heavily black precincts (in states other than FL) that showed 1% or sometimes even 0% for Bush, but was not aware that the Republican registration in such precincts could be substantial.
Here is the Palm Beach County web site:
http://www.pbcelections.org/results.htm The precinct registration data is current, not from 2000, but should be roughly the same. A bit of spreadsheet work should prove or disprove PE's assertion.