Sentence examples for machine counts are from inspiring English sources

"Machine counts are very often inaccurate," he told Mr. Russert.

Whatever the machine counts is the final tally (and some have been known to stop counting at 100).

In two cases, votes were recounted by hand to determine victors because the machine counts were so close and a few ballots appeared flawed.

The errors in the machine counting are obvious.

He conceded that the machine counting was also imperfect, but said it at least was consistent.

Machine counting is the most accurate method of tallying the vote, the Republicans say.

Duval County, where nearly 5,000 of the 291,000 ballots cast on Election Day registered no vote for president in the machine count, was in a major bind.

Joe DePlasco, a spokesman for the Green campaign, said last night: "The machine count is almost exactly the same as the final unofficial tally.

The contention that a machine count is more objective is based on the presumption that the rules by which machines decide on the outcome are more rigorous than those that can be applied by humans.

Even if the courts interpret the law to disallow manual recounts, you could still argue that the machine count is unfair because one party's voters happen to be less adept at following the machine's rules.

Why a machine count is any less arbitrary than a manual count is something the Bush lawyers there are five law firms on the complaint will explain in court this morning.