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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ColtonGang who wrote (73035)	11/13/2000 4:12:52 PM
From: ColtonGang	Respond to of 769670

New Hampshire presidential race tightens By David Tirrell-Wysocki Associated Press Writer CONCORD, N.H. — Proofreading and computer errors have tightened the presidential race in New Hampshire and may affect some local races, the secretary of state's office said Monday. One error gave Republican George W. Bush - who won the state — 1,000 too many votes in one Nashua ward, Assistant Secretary of State Karen Ladd said. In several other communities, a programming error miscounted votes for Bush and Al Gore, denying Bush 107 votes in Randolph and Gore 208 in Stark and Stewartstown. The official margin of victory for Bush now is 7,068 as election officials check for other possible errors. The Nashua error occurred when the secretary of state's office was ``proofing'' local figures last week, Ladd said. Officials do not know if the same mistake was made in totaling results anywhere else and are double checking their numbers. Officials are also checking to see if the programming errors were made anywhere else. Also, in at least two other communities, Lyman and Warren, straight ticket votes were not counted, but Ladd estimated this mistake affected only about 200 votes, with most of them going to Bush. With three different types of mistakes now spotted, officials were checking other community results for other possible problems, she said. ``I don't think I will find any more,'' Ladd said. She said the programming error that miscounted Gore and Bush votes occurred because a computer program recorded the votes as a date, reading 108 votes for Bush in Randolph, for instance, as Jan. 8. Election officials, examining the printed totals, saw a ''1'' recorded in what they thought was the vote column and gave Bush one vote instead of 108. The initial official results gave Bush 274,290 votes to Gore's 266,121, a difference of 8,169 votes.