AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
THE FINAL VOTE COUNTS.(recount of Florida votes for the 2000 election)(Brief Article)
Though you wouldn't know it from watching network news or reading major newspapers, the notion that Al Gore "really won" in Florida is not holding up well.
First, the Miami Herald discovered that over 5,000 Florida felons, not legally allowed to vote, apparently did. And given that 75 percent of them were registered Democrats, Gore's vote count should probably have had thousands subtracted from it.
Then Florida newspapers began looking into "under-votes" (ballots for which the election machines registered no vote for President). Once again, a "real count" didn't discover evidence Gore should have won. The Palm Beach Post, for example, looked at all 10,600 Miami-Dade County under-votes, counting everything "from the faintest dimple to chads barely hanging on ballots" just as Team ...
- This may be the year the native vote counts; Close election race has many...
- Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN) Coleman, Nick September 10, 2004 700+ words
...even know they could vote, and it was a long time...Nobody ever asked us to vote, and I guess no one ever needed our votes." "Indians have only...chairs of a Get Out The Vote Campaign that kicks off...demonstrated in 2000, every vote counts. And with Minnesota...
- 2004 Platinum Teen Talent Search winners, YSB, Launch 'Protect Our Future --...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire November 1, 2004 700+ words
...Protect Our Future. Every Vote Counts." Within their campaign they...that you vote. Remember "every vote counts." For information about the "Protect Our Future. Every Vote Counts," campaign, check out http...
- Every Vote Counts! New Ben & Jerry's Rock the Vote Flavor to be Named By the...
- Press release article from: Business Wire August 29, 2003 700+ words
...Jerry's, Rock the Vote and AOL will narrow the...hit the online polls and vote for the name you think...name that gets the most votes wins consideration by Ben...online contest, every vote counts and there's no danger...
- Why your vote counts.(Suburban Living)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) Shenfeld, Hilary November 7, 2000 700+ words
...Pullen knows the value of a vote, too. In 1990, Pullen...Glenview and Rosemont. Vote counts after the Republican primary...Rosemary Mulligan by 31 votes out of almost 15,000...tied. In Illinois, a tie vote is settled by a coin toss...
- O'Brien: Every vote counts; Warns against Fla. election debacle repeat.(News)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Marantz, Steve November 3, 2002 700+ words
...friends - every vote counts." At two stops...debacle - where votes siphoned by Green...that every single vote counts," said O'Brien...the closeness of votes in Florida. Al Gore won the popular vote, and frankly...
- AccuPoll Lauds 'Know Your Vote Counts Act of 2004' Introduced by Congressman...
- Press release article from: Business Wire April 21, 2004 700+ words
...introduced "Know Your Vote Counts Act of 2004," which...crucial that one's vote be accurately, securely...The Know Your Vote Counts Act of 2004, introduced...the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA...recording and counting votes. AccuPoll works...
- In 9th District every vote counts.(Editorial)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Woodlief, Wayne September 11, 2001 700+ words
...make a difference when you vote and a difference - a negative...of 2000 to see how every vote counts. George W. Bush is president because he won 327 votes more than Al Gore did out...tipping the electoral vote balance. And only then...
- WHY EVERY VOTE COUNTS ON JUNE 4.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England) June 2, 2009 700+ words
...that all the votes are counted together...5% of the vote in some regions...that means every vote counts. The fewer people who vote the easier it...the number of votes the BNP will...just 90,000 votes. If 40% of people vote then the BNP...
