The Nov. 26, 2000, certified results showed a 537-vote margin in favor of Bush.
Since then, as county canvassers certified results and election errors were corrected, that lead dwindled to 206 votes, seven-thousandths of 1percentt.
Without answering the justices' questions, the Florida Supreme Court then turned to the Gore campaign's contest of the newly certified results and ordered a statewide manual recount of ballots that when counted by machine had not indicated a choice for president.
But after a roller-coaster vote count, the county this week certified results that put me on the school board.
A more "surgical" course, she said, would be to affirm irregularities but only order that certified results be reopened and recertified once those problems are remedied.
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But Manukyan's National Democratic Union of Armenia, which comprises five opposition parties, says it posted monitors to watch the tallies and claims that it has certified results from almost all 1,742 polling stations showing Manukyan won 55% of the vote.
Moreover, the secretary of state certified results of a partial manual recount using the Miami-Dade standard when she certified the six additional votes from the three precincts sampled by the Miami-Dade board.
You had 215 ballots that are not included in certified results in Palm Beach County where the Circuit Court found, on undisputed evidence, that there was a clear voter intent expressed on those ballots and they were not counted.
Alabama's 67 counties are to submit certified results to the secretary of state's office on Friday.
Under Florida law, Mr. Gore has a right to contest the certified results.
