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Miami Ballots: Gore Gained Only 49 Votes NewsMax.com WiresMIAMI – A review of 10,644 "under-votes" in Miami-Dade County by the Miami Herald shows that George W. Bush would have won the presidency outright without weeks of indecision. The newspaper reported Monday that Al Gore would have netted no more than 49 votes in Miami-Dade, 140 shy of the total needed to overtake Bush even when combined with Gore gains in the three other counties where the then-vice president had requested manual recounts. "President Bush was lawfully elected on Election Day. He won after the first statewide machine recount," said Mark Wallace, a Miami lawyer for the Republican Party. "He won after the manual recount, and he won at the conclusion of all the litigation. "Now, after a ballot review using liberal standards unprecedented under the law, we find President Bush would still win. At some point, the Democratic National Committee needs to accept that, and that time is now," Wallace told the newspaper. But some Democrats insisted the Herald's review showed that neither side could have known how the recounts would turn out. "This underscores how unpredictable the whole recount strategy was, on both sides," said Doug Hattaway, former Gore campaign spokesman. "This shows Bush's tactics of delaying and blocking vote recounts didn't really benefit him." The review – which was sponsored by the Herald and its parent company, Knight Ridder – found that 1,555 Miami-Dade ballots were marked in a way that might be interpreted as a vote for Gore. An additional 1,506 bore some kind of marking that might be interpreted as a vote for Bush. There were 106 markings for other candidates. No markings for president were found on 4,892 ballots, and 2,058 ballots bore markings in spaces that had been assigned to no candidate. An additional 527 ballots were deemed to have markings for more than one presidential candidate. Gore had requested manual recounts in Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach and Volusia counties. The four counties used punchcard ballots, which state lawmakers are considering eliminating in favor of optical scanning equipment for the 2002 election in all 67 Florida counties. Copyright 2001 by United Press International.
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