Every time any board has looked at these issues, they found ballots.
As county officials began reviewing the 257 found ballots, which produced 152 votes for Mr. Bush and 97 for Mr. Gore, Judy Woodard, the Bernalillo County clerk, said the rejected ballots would not be counted in the state totals.
But evidence of fraud in last month's election is colossally disturbing: Voter cards were bought and sold freely in the run-up to the vote, precinct workers arrived at dawn to find ballot boxes stuffed full, some districts recorded more votes than there were registered voters, and nationwide voter registration surpassed the number of eligible voters by as much as 5 million.
So these are ballots where we know that if you look at the undervotes, you find ballots that can clearly have a discernible intent of the voter found from them.
When New York voters go to the polls for the primary on Sept. 10, South Asians in Queens will for the first time find ballots translated into Bengali, the first new language to be introduced at city polling booths in more than a decade, election officials said.
The following questionable ballots were found: *344 ballots with no evidence they were cast on or before Election Day.
Stephanie Brown, an 18-year-old studying journalism at Florida Community College, also found the ballot confusing, but said she was saved from voting incorrectly by a warning from her mother, who voted just ahead of her.
He found a ballot somewhere, filled it out and asked me to review his choices.
On the other hand, if you found a ballot that was indented all the way through, you counted that as the intent of the voter.
Gore campaign officials contend that the roughly 19,000 "overvotes" that were disregarded represented an extraordinarily high figure -- and proof that voters found the ballot confusing.
