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To: mph who wrote (939)	2/26/2001 12:45:37 PM
From: Original Mad Dog	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14610

Interesting news article today: dailynews.yahoo.com Monday February 26 9:12 AM ET Study Shows Gore Would Not Have Won Miami Recount WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An independent study shows former Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites) would not have added many new votes in Miami-Dade County and might even have lost ground in that county, if the hand count of presidential ballots he requested had been completed, USA Today reported on Monday. The newspaper said an independent study done for USA Today, The Miami Herald and Knight Ridder Newspapers concluded the Democratic presidential candidate would have had a net gain of just 49 votes in the county if the most-lenient standard -- of counting even faintly dimpled chads -- had been used. If a more stringent standard had been applied, Republican George W. Bush probably would have gained votes, according to the paper. Democrats had widely predicted that Gore would have won the 2000 presidential election if a hand recount had been allowed to proceed. They had predicted a net gain of about 600 additional votes in Miami-Dade County alone. That would have been enough to overcome Bush's 537-vote margin in the whole state of Florida. The Florida Supreme Court (news - web sites) had ordered a hand count of ballots that didn't register a preference when votes were counted by machine. However, the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites) stopped the hand count, making Bush the next president. The three media organizations hired the national accounting firm of BDO Seidman to examine all 60,000 undervotes in Florida's 67 counties. The results from Miami-Dade are the first released, and complete results are expected within weeks. USA Today said BDO Seidman reported that 4,892 of 10,646 undervote ballots in Miami-Dade had no mark whatsoever. It found that 1,555 ballots had some indication the voter wanted Gore and 1,506 indicated Bush. The rest were either marked, but not on a candidate's name, or were for other candidates. Dimpled chads accounted for 1,202 of the 1,555 potential Gore votes and 1,092 of the 1,506 potential Bush votes. If the most-lenient standard had been used to judge votes and dimpled chads had been counted, Gore benefited slightly. When stricter standards applied, Bush won the county, USA TODAY reported.