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...circuit-court judge Jorge Labarga ruled that dimpled chads should count as long as the board could discern the voter's intent. The board has apparently stuck to a restrictive approach, not counting dimples in the presidential race if a voter made full holes in other races on the ballot. Its reasoning: a voter who left dimples in many races probably had trouble punching clear holes. But a voter who left a dimple only in the presidential race may have been reluctant to vote in that one race...
...more representation than others. Florida's recount law, on the other hand, is designed to ensure that all voters in the state get the same vote. A recount should not give a county's voters more or less representation; it should simply ensure that everyone who cast a valid ballot is given a vote...
...indisputable that a badly designed ballot in Palm Beach County misdirected or disqualified thousands of votes intended for Gore. It is beyond reasonable dispute that those votes would have given Gore a clean win in Florida. Nevertheless, Gore offered to forswear any effort to claim those votes if Bush agreed to a fair and thorough recount of ballots as they were actually cast. Bush said...
...indisputable that ballot-counting machines routinely fail to count many legitimate ballots. The Governor of Texas, one George W. Bush, signed a law treating dimpled chads as legitimate votes; the Republican candidate, George W. Bush, now realizes that only a desperate Democrat could take such a position. However, some ballots uncounted by the machines are legitimate by any standard. The Gore position is: in a tight race, let's count every legitimate ballot (and argue about the close calls). The Bush position is: throw them all away...
...This was a decisive setback for the Gore team - but it wasn't necessarily fatal. Five minutes after the opinion was read, Boies had positioned himself outside the courtroom, promising an appeal and shaking a verbal fist in Sauls' direction. "This ruling comes without the judge having reviewed one ballot," he said indignantly. "We have said from the beginning of all this that we believe citizens have a right to see their votes counted," he proclaimed...