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.
They then have to feed the forms into machines that count the votes and transmit the totals usually through public wireless networks to central servers.
No consumer would engage with e-commerce on the web if those systems were as hackable and open to abuse as those that count our votes.
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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.
Despite persistent Republican objections--including a lawsuit filed Nov. 11 by the Bush campaign and others to try to stop the hand count--Palm Beach County officials hewed to the most conservative guidelines to decide which votes to authorize.
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.
An unofficial vote count is expected to be released Saturday after the parliament votes on electing the president.
"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%.
It will take 34 votes to sink UNCLOS but Republican sources on Capitol Hill say they can count less than 10 currently against it.
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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.
Maduro was elected Sunday by a margin of 50.8 percent to 49 percent over challenger Henrique Capriles a difference of just 262, 000 votes out of 14.9 million cast, according to an updated official count released Monday.
Meanwhile, in Jakarta some parties have alleged that the votes were miscounted, prompting the city committee to accept their call for a re-count.
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