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Nationwide, Canadian candidates appear in the same order on the ballots. This enables national newspapers as well as TV stations to show the ballots well in advance of the actual election day, reducing a chance that a confusing Palm Beach County ballot could sway an election. Another feature of the Canadian election system is that no precincts are larger than 500 people, making hand-counts and possible recounts much more viable...
...should at least be possible to have ballots standardized at the state level. The Republicans' argument that manual recount standards are uneven is exacerbated by the fact that the types of ballots and voting systems can vary widely from county to county. Some areas, such as now-infamous Palm Beach County, still use punch-card systems from the mid-1970s, while others have long since switched to more reliable optical scanner technologies. A standard system will encourage uniform procedures and heighten confidence in the outcome should manual recounts again be necessary...
Regardless of the technology employed, improved training for election personnel would also help avoid situations like that in Palm Beach County, where election overseers were often just as unsure of the proper procedures as voters...
...afternoon, Florida's Supreme Court stunned the nation, ruling 4-3 in favor of an immediate recount of all "undervotes" across the state and reversing Judge N. Sanders Sauls' rejection of Gore's contest of the Florida election results. The court also ordered that 383 Gore votes collected in Palm Beach County and Miami-Dade county hand recounts be included in the official tally. Those additions whittle Bush's lead down to 154 from the previous tally of 537. If the court's ruling stands - and there are bound to be appeals - Gore stands a good chance of picking...
...statewide undervote count with a vote-by-vote standard, one more like Palm Beach than Broward, might just be as Solomonic as we get these days. It may not favor Al Gore as much as he thinks, but for him it sure beats losing. It may not endanger George W. Bush as much as he thinks, but for him it sure doesn't top winning. If the Supreme Court stays out of this, Al Gore's quest will be George W. Bush's too - a trench war between counters, between operatives, between politicians of high office...