They don't really constitute a voting bloc, because their political allegiances reflect income and education as much as creed.
It is the hour to unite and change our future, the future of our children — and the future of this country!" And every weekend, at a small table behind the newspapers and a case of cold sodas, a trickle of newly minted citizens are doing just that — not in numbers large enough to constitute a voting bloc, but enough to make politicians take notice.
"In Florida, you had a lack of definition as to what constitutes a vote and no appropriate recount procedure.
The rules about what constituted a vote varied from county to county and should be uniform, Senator Spano said.
The bill passed today says that each state must "adopt uniform and nondiscriminatory standards that define what constitutes a vote and what will be counted as a vote".
She did not explain the standard she used to determine what constituted a vote, but it appeared that she had accepted any mark on the ballot.
The painstaking process of counting votes by hand in a presidential election so close that every vote actually could count led to constant partisan challenges during the day over exactly what constituted a vote.
The report also calls for each state to adopt uniform statewide standards before the election for what constitutes a vote for each kind of voting machine that is certified in that state.
The board -- made up of a county commissioner, a county judge and the elections supervisor, all Democrats -- presided over a confusing process in which the rules for what constituted a vote shifted in the middle of the day.
The Republicans again harshly criticized the process as unfair, pointing particularly to the decision this morning by the Broward County Canvassing Board to adopt a broader standard when determining what constitutes a vote.
