In a number of counties, votes that had been fairly counted were simply set aside.
The first results to be counted were for Parliament, where the party of President Kibaki was soundly defeated.
But the words that counted were those between him and the Chinese visitor who stood beside him.
Among those already counted were 654 members of the smallest recognized ethnic group in Russia, the Tofalars, who live in a mountainous area around Alygdzher.
The final scores, with 99% of the vote counted, were 19.6% for Mr Chirac, 16.9% for Mr Le Pen, and 16% for Mr Jospin.
The decisions that really counted were made in London, even if vestiges of statehood – legal and educational systems and a national church – had been left in place.
Dr. Rick Nelson, 44, a vascular surgeon from Oklahoma City, said he was upset that votes that should not be counted were being included in Mr. Gore's total.
Another witness, Omar Abdulahi, said that among the dead he counted were two old men in their homes who had been shot by Ethiopian soldiers.
In a recent study by scientists at the University of Delaware, only 31 of 13,789 insects trapped and counted were female mosquitoes or biting gnats.
The largest single category of items that IFAW counted were musical instruments, which indicates that most people were selling pianos or guitars or violins with ivory in-lays.
The artists who counted were image-recycling gravediggers of tradition, chiefly the Pictures Generation of Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, and Richard Prince.
