That apparently includes Florida, which is continuing to count votes, but which Mr. Romney's Florida campaign said Thursday he is likely to lose.
It is the Bush machine, not the Gore machine, that encouraged supporters to storm the office where Miami-Dade officials were trying to count votes.
While the statutes require that the secretary certify the vote seven days after the election, which is today, the law also gives the secretary discretion to count votes that come in after the certification.
As question time drew to a close, Commons Speaker John Bercow urged MPs to press local authorities in their constituencies to count votes on the day of the forthcoming General Election - rather than the following day, as proposed by some returning officers.
The cardinals draw lots to select three members to collect ballots from the infirm, three "tellers" to count the votes and three others to review the results.
At this step, the group takes the time to count the votes right.
In Volusia, one of four counties where Democrats asked for a hand recount, officials said they would still need an extension in order to count their votes.
More than 800, 000 Puerto Ricans live there today, and if Florida had been quicker to count its votes, Puerto Ricans in that state would have been portrayed as the kingmakers of the 2012 election.
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The Organization of American States (OAS) sent representatives to monitor the process and called for the delay of the elections arguing that the computer system that had to count the votes did not work well.
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South Wales East is another region where it would probably be easier to weigh Labour votes than to count them.
It is expected to take about two days to count all the votes.
However, although voting has closed, it could take weeks to count all the votes among the company's 900, 000 shareholders who hold some 1.9bn shares.
Broward County and Palm Beach County, backed by the Gore campaign, will argue in Florida Supreme Court that they have the right to hold a hand count and to have those votes certified by the state.
The election came down to who won Florida and although Bush collected more votes according to the official count and an unofficial recount in the state, overseas ballots were yet to be counted.
New York State got basically an ultimatum from the government saying they've got to update their machines, they've got to update the way they count the votes.
Most Americans do not pay sufficient attention to the fact that our votes count more in the regional primaries beginning in January than in the November general election.
The number of rejected votes has fallen dramatically from more than 330, 000 - 6% - during an initial count, to about 1% of votes cast, meaning they are fare less of an issue than it had seemed earlier in the week.
The U.S. Supreme Court's stay Saturday of a Florida Supreme Court order to begin the hand count of disputed ballots could push a few electors to vote counter to their states' popular votes, he said.
"If there is to be any difference between my proposal that we count these votes and any other course of action, it should be a complete re-do of the primary and nothing else is fair, " she says.
Mr Simpson was declared the winner after a fourth count on Thursday when he polled 89, 521 votes to Sir Ken's 89, 115.
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As neither had anywhere near the total of 50% required for an outright win, the count went to a second round, with the second-preference votes of the four eliminated candidates reallocated to the leading pair.
The official count indicates Mr Maduro won 50.8% of votes to Mr Capriles's 49.0%.
Then there were another 600, 000 votes that just weren't able to be counted during the preliminary count because they came from very rural polling booths that were very far away from the central district offices where they had to be physically brought to in order to be counted.
Meanwhile, in Jakarta some parties have alleged that the votes were miscounted, prompting the city committee to accept their call for a re-count.
"I don't think anybody's really been able to get a good hard count, but I would say it's probably in the range of 50 votes, " he said.
The count has been plagued with technical glitches, including a programming error that led to the number of rejected votes being multiplied by a factor of eight.
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