The research shows that 45,608 of the 56,000 ballot papers (87% of the total) contained votes for Mr Gore, compared with 17,098 containing votes for Mr Bush (33%).
More than 26,000 ballots were invalidated, the vast majority because they contained votes for more than one presidential candidate.
The court agreed with Judge Sauls that 3,300 votes that had been evaluated in Palm Beach County need not be recounted, because the county elections board had already determined which ballots contained votes.
Still, the F.E.C. judged the movie, and promotions for it, to be "electioneering communications," intended to sway voters' behavior, whether or not they contained "vote" or "ballot" or other such "magic words".
But the bomb turns out to be a packing case containing voting materials -- ballots and a big cardboard ballot box -- to be used in gathering the islanders' votes in a major national election.
In Dade County, about 20percentt of the uncounted punch cards were judged to contain votes, but Palm Beach County canvassers found far fewer than that.
But as blue box after blue box containing votes was emptied in the main hall, and with each announcement devoid of shock, and confirming that Salmond's name wouldn't be carved alongside Wallace or Bruce just yet, talk in the Marriot was turning to the consequences of winning.
The documents state: "In one instance a bundle of ballot papers purportedly containing only votes cast for the First Respondent was assembled by corrupt members of the counting staff and actually consisted mostly of votes for other candidates, with only the top few ballot papers containing votes for the First Respondent".
The committee also turned its attention to over-the-counter children's medicines containing acetaminophen, voting 36 to 1 to limit them to a single formulation.
The vehicle contained 72,300 voting slips for Hastings and Rye, and 130,000 for Eastbourne.
