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Hand counting is generally a good means of ensuring a proper tally of votes, as humans should have the ultimate say over an election. Despite gradual trends toward mechanization, in the case of a very close election, a hand count returns the power of the election to a human authority. The punch-ballots used in Florida are particularly prone to computer error as ballots cannot be counted unless the paper covering a hole is completely removed. It is possible that the computers did not count ballots clearly demarcated for a particular candidate that did not have fully punched holes...
Bush's injunction against the hand count is particularly difficult to understand, as he signed into Texas law a measure that retains recourse to a hand count over a machine recount during close elections. Bush should recognize the fairness of a hand count, and he should stand firmly behind this aspect of the democratic process, which he himself had previously recognized...
PHILADELPHIA--The Harvard football team came agonizingly close to beating Penn and then needing to beat only Yale to claim at least a share of the Ivy League title...
While the final recount is completed, the hanging chads tabulated, the overseas ballots enumerated and the lawsuits filed, resolved and dismissed, we have a fleeting chance to stop and ask what -- if anything -- we can learn from this wonderful, ridiculous, improbably close first election of the new millennium...
...closeness of the vote became apparent, Democratic officials were also concerned about the absentee vote, which they knew could be decisive in an election as close as this one, but which had also been at issue in some famously disputed Florida elections of recent years. In the Miami Beach mayoral race three years ago, incumbent Joe Carollo, a Republican, won 51 percent of the votes cast at polling places. His challenger, ex-mayor Xavier Suarez, who ran as an independent, won 61 percent of the absentees, forcing the contest into a runoff that Suarez won with a large number...