Election Recount

[WMSteed@aol.com]

I've been told the previous attempt to send this story got lost in the 
translation.  Let's try again.  Also have  been told NPR did carry it 
although I still haven't heard anything on major networks.

Walter Steed



Dade ballot review finds gain of 6 votes for Bush

George W. Bush would have gained six more votes if all the dimples and 
hanging chads on 10,600 previously uncounted ballots in Miami-Dade County had 
been included in the totals, according to a review by The Palm Beach Post.
The Herald and its parent company, Knight Ridder, are conducting their own 
ballot inspection in Miami-Dade as part of a comprehensive review in all 67 
Florida counties. The Herald expects its review in Miami-Dade to be finished 
by the end of this week.
Before Vice President Al Gore conceded last month, his camp had expected to 
pick up as many as 600 votes from a Miami-Dade recount. The Post review 
showed 251 additional votes for Bush and 245 more for Gore.
The review, concluded last week, also showed the vast majority of ballots 
rejected as undervotes -- ballots where no vote for president was recorded 
when counted by machine -- appeared, in fact, to cast no vote for president. 
About 7,600 undervotes had no mark at all on the presidential column or, in 
rare cases, included multiple votes. Most of the voters who did not indicate 
a vote for president did punch choices in other races.
But at least 2,257 voters apparently poked at their ballot cards without 
properly inserting them in the machines.
Of these miscast votes, 302 more would have gone for Gore than Bush, The Post 
review found. Even if those votes had been cast correctly, however, it would 
not have changed the outcome of a presidential election that turned on 537 
votes for Bush in Florida.
Two Post reporters, each paired with an elections staffer, reviewed ballots. 
The Post's categories included clean votes; chads with three, two and one 
corner detached; dimpled or pregnant chads through which light could be seen; 
and dimples where no light could be seen.