Word: errors
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...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. A hand count would catch ballots that were not counted for this reason...
Republican lawyers will ask Judge Donald M. Middlebrooks to issue an injunction barring a hand recount of every ballot cast in Palm Beach County, on the basis that such recounts are significantly prone to error, and that Bush and his running mate, Dick Cheney, would be deprived of their constitutional rights...
...last days of the campaign. Just ask Dave Shand, 45, of Saline, Mich., who was constantly pestered by pollsters, like the one he told he was a registered voter planning to go Republican. Shand is a left-leaning Canadian citizen. "You know that 3%-to-4% margin of error?" he says. "That...
...vice-presidential photo-op to call for the process to go on "without any intervening, uh, interference." (Yes, it was Gore, not Bush.) "It's not the contest but our democracy. I would not want to win the presidency by a few votes cast in error, or not counted or whatever, and I don't think Gov. Bush wants that either...
...sheriff Bob Vogel, when a controversial count of absentee ballots put Vogel ahead of an opponent he had trailed on election night. That led two years later to a Florida Supreme Court decision that said elections in that state could be invalidated merely for reasons of Election Day error, even in the absence of outright fraud, so long as there was doubt that the outcome reflected "the will of the voters." But it did not specify when the remedy should involve ordering a new election, something Democrats have talked about for Palm Beach. And Florida courts have almost never gone...