Miami-Dade undervotes would not have helped Gore win

Jeff Walker jkw1199p at seiu.workfam.com
Tue Feb 27 08:20:13 PST 2001


What's up with this apparantly contradictory info?

Nathan wrote:


>Worth checking out http://www.gorewonflorida.org to see the numbers from
the
>statewide recounts by the consoritum of news organizations recounting
>ballots statewide. By the standard of where votes were "reasonably clear",
>Gore won by 29,756 votes. And by the narrower standard of where the vote
>was "perfectly clear", Gore still won by 1017 votes.

The Associated Press wrote:
> MIAMI (AP) - A review of 10,644 uncounted ballots in Miami-Dade County
> showed Al Gore would not have gained enough votes to overtake George W.
> Bush in Florida when those votes were combined with results from three
> other counties where the vice president requested manual recounts, a
> newspaper reported.
>
> Gore would have gained no more than 49 votes in Miami-Dade, The Miami
> Herald reported in Monday's editions. When combined with Gore's gains in
> Broward, Palm Beach, and Volusia counties, he would have not have overcome
> the Bush lead.



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