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

To: SecularBull who wrote (73456)	11/13/2000 10:03:07 PM
From: Thehammer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Good job! Soon he will be wanting to privatize SS !

To: SecularBull who wrote (73456)	11/13/2000 10:04:49 PM
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Article...In Polk's Early Recount, Bush Gains 104; Gore, 7 Monday, November 13, 2000 By JOHN CHAMBLISS The Ledger theledger.com LAKELAND -- Texas Gov. George W. Bush gained 104 votes in Polk County, while Vice President Al Gore gained seven votes when a two-day recount ended about 2:30 a.m. Sunday in Bartow. "That is a big deal in Polk County and more votes than you would expect," said County Commission Chairman Bruce Parker, one of three members of the county canvassing board. Workers finished the 90-precinct recount in the Polk County elections office as Republican and Democrat lawyers looked on. The recount will be certified at 10:30 this morning. "Right now, you can't really tell if this will have a statewide affect on the election," Parker said. When a statewide tally is determined, many county votes are a "washout" or count themselves out. The majority of the error was made in Precinct 131 in West Lakeland, where 90 of Gore's votes were counted twice. Before the recount, Bush was leading Gore 90,165 to 75,170 in Polk County. The recount added to both candidates' totals. Parker said there were 90 unscanned ballots that had not been counted by six volunteers in the Memorial Boulevard precinct. "It was human error and just a mistake," Parker said. The other 14 errors could have been caused by overvoting in a precinct, in which a voter darkens more than one oval in a race. Mistakes are always made in elections, and Parker said perfectly coordinated elections are rare. Parker, a Republican, along with Polk County Judge Ann Kaylor and Supervisor of Elections Helen Gienau, both Democrats, checked and certified the ballots when they were completed. On election day In Polk, each ballot was fed into an Accu-Vote machine in the precinct where the ballot was cast. The machine kept a running total of the ballots and at the end of voting Tuesday that final number was recorded on a ballot accounting form. Poll workers also add up how many votes were cast in a precinct and write down the number. Polk has 163 voting precincts, but the 90 designated for recount were the ones in which the machines' total votes cast did not match the workers' numbers. For the recount, all the ballots from the chosen precincts were fed through counting machines at the main election office in Bartow. During the past two days, the votes swayed back and forth, with Bush leading most of the time, Parker said. Late Saturday, Bush was only ahead by three votes with 20 precincts left. Parker said the recount here, which began about 3 p.m. Friday, went smoothly. Parker urged people not to jump to conclusions about the election, and said the outcome might not be determined till Friday. "We still have to count the absentee ballots, and the deadline for that is Friday at midnight," he said.