It would have been great had they counted.

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People vote for the BID, or they vote against it, and every positive vote is counted.

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Addressing voters in a depressed part of Ohio this week, he noted that they, like he, must know what it feels like to be counted out and written off.

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Also, it would be unfair to prevent taxpayers from taking tax breaks they had counted on this year.

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He said ResultSource told him it could arrange the purchase of a quantity of books in such a way that they were counted toward national best-seller lists.

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