One of the best arguments for hand counting paper ballots is that any irregularities are by definition local.

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Bush's lawyer argued that the lack of a standard for hand-counting ballots violates the equal protection clause of the Constitution.

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On the other hand, many on Twitter were counting the views as they watched the stream.

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Later, footage from an off-licence showed him counting out money in his hand.

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Because the fork is in contact with only two parts of your body: your mouth and your hand, the device is successful at counting the number of fork servings during a meal.

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In Holland, many casinos use continuous shuffling machines (CSM), so that dealt cards are shuffled back into the deck after each hand, in order to fend off card counting.

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Whereas their neighbours at nearby universities roam their sprawling campuses and prepare for high-powered careers, the Peach Garden children sit 50 to a room at rickety second-hand desks, learning how to read and counting themselves lucky to be in any sort of school at all.

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" Klain called it a "crystallizing moment: the idea that the Republicans, having been rejected by the courts in their efforts to shut down the hand counts, would resort to these sorts of tactics to stop the counting of ballots.

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Following glitches with hi-tech voting and counting systems, the vote-tallying process was started again from scratch, and by hand, on Wednesday.

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