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Katherine Harris, Florida's secretary of state, set a deadline of 2 p.m. today for several Florida counties to explain why they were continuing to count votes by hand. A ruling in state court yesterday gave Harris--who served as Bush's Florida campaign co-chair--the discretion to decide whether any further votes should be tallied...
Jenny Backus, a spokeswoman for the Democratic National Committee, countered: "With three counties left to complete hand counts, the outcome of this election is very much in play. We need a full, fair and accurate count to go forward, and we're hopeful the secretary of state heeds the guidance and directives of today's court decision, and does not act in an arbitrary manner...
...other students pointed out the importance of ensuring an accurate count...
Edoardo Gallo '04 of Italy said, "My favorite joke is that in Italy we are not able to keep the same government, but at least we are able to count the votes...
...Everyone in Florida has had their vote counted. Those votes have been counted a second time. And tonight they have been certified. And we do not know yet who has won." Hand-counting, Bush said, "introduces human error and politics into the vote-counting process." A statewide hand-count, he said, would only be "compounding the error by extending a flawed process statewide... This would be neither fair nor accurate, it would be arbitrary and chaotic...