Returning officers agreed individual user agreements with the e-counting provider that set out how their count was to be conducted and retained the statutory responsibility for the count of ballot papers.
Democrats say election officials must count any ballot for which they can reasonably determine the voter's intent, including dimpled chads--ballots on which a box for a candidate was indented but not actually pierced.
The Gore position is: in a tight race, let's count every legitimate ballot (and argue about the close calls).
Election officials say the fraud wasn't bad enough to undermine the legitimacy of the vote, but the ballot count is taking longer than expected.
With the ballot count nearly complete, the parties of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif - the leader Musharraf ousted - had won enough seats to form a new government.
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) A slow ballot count in Kenya's presidential vote raised questions Tuesday about the election process, but it was a decision on the more than 325, 000 rejected ballots that made it appear likely the election will be decided in a runoff.
The Republicans argue that voting machines are more reliable than humans and that no ballot should count if it doesn't register in a machine tabulation.
The Government is asking returning officers on duty at this Thursday's London referendum to count as valid as many ballot papers as possible, even those where the voter's 'X' does not quite hit the spot.
The problem was not so much the stuffing of ballot boxes or a rigged count as the disqualification of hundreds of reformist candidates under a system of double vetting by the interior ministry and the Council of Guardians, an unelected body empowered to inspect the religious credentials of those wishing to stand.
It said the names of all five nominated candidates would appear on ballot papers and that the election count would not be affected.
It is indisputable that ballot-counting machines routinely fail to count many legitimate ballots.
Ballot box stuffing, replacing boxes, a vote count miscalculation are common violations that observers are ready to catch.
FORBES: While Moscow Sleeps, the Far East has Begun to Vote.
These are the only reasons a ballot paper can be rejected and not counted and the regulations make no rule that ballot papers have to be visible at all points during the count.
Hillary Clinton says the results of Michigan's Democratic presidential primary should count, even if Barack Obama's name did not appear on the ballot.
The district count in Whitstable was delayed for about three hours after vials of a liquid were found in a ballot box.
But even Kivuitu had acknowledged problems with the count, including a constituency where voter turnout added up to 115 percent and another where a candidate ran away with ballot papers.
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