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Disputed Florida ballots examined
Reporters counting disputed ballots from Palm Beach County
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 2 � Palm Beach County�s presidential
ballots are under the microscope again. On Tuesday, journalists
and Republicans began an examination of the punchcards that were
rejected by the Florida county�s vote-tabulation machines.
�There�s no final exact number. Everyone�s going to see
something different.� � BRIGHAM MCCOWN, GOP attorney
FLORIDA�S VOTES have been certified for more than a month and Al
Gore conceded the race to President-elect George W. Bush over
three weeks ago. But several news organizations are conducting
examinations of Bush�s razor-thin victory, 537 votes out of 6
million cast.
Florida gave Bush the 25 Electoral College votes he needed
to beat Gore, who won the popular vote by more than 500,000
votes.
On Tuesday, representatives from The Miami Herald, The
Palm Beach Post and the Republican Party began looking at more
than 20,000 ballots that were rejected by voting machines in Palm
Beach County. Hundreds of voters also complained that the
county�s butterfly ballot was confusing.
At Gore�s request, officials began a manual recount of all
460,000 ballots cast in the county, but the 188 votes Gore picked
up were not counted in the state�s official total.
The review, which is costing the media outlets $125 an
hour, is scheduled to take several days. Two elections officials
hold up ballots for reporters on the opposite side of a table.
�It�s a long tedious process and for what purpose, I�m
really not sure,� said Theresa LePore, Palm Beach County�s
supervisor of elections.
It is not the only ballot review going on.
In Gainesville, reporters are examining Alachua County�s
ballots and examinations are scheduled in Miami-Dade, Broward,
Pasco, Santa Rosa, Osceola, Okaloosa and Highlands counties.
Ballots in several other counties were examined by media outlets
before the holidays.
The media organizations are hopeful that they will be able
to uncover trends in the discarded votes that will enable them to
make at least an educated guess about whether the hand recounts
sought by Gore could have changed the election�s outcome.
Republicans have been critical of the media effort, saying
it is pointless.
�There�s no final exact number,� said Brigham McCown, a
GOP attorney. �Everyone�s going to see something different.�
� 2001 Associated Press. All rights reserved.
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