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.
His biography on his own website goes on to boast of the lead he has taken in sensible but dull organisations such as the European Movement and the electoral reform group Make Votes Count.
Nothing short of sedition was left for Al Gore if he wished to continue a fight for his right to run this country, once nine individuals in the District of Columbia told 6 million voters in Florida which of their votes should count.
The Central Election Committee reported Wednesday that 99% of votes had been counted and verified, but the count of votes from members of the military and prisoners won't be final for a couple of days.
Ms Redfearn took 55% of the votes at first count meaning a second was not needed.
It wouldn't necessarily alter anything: rules are rules, and it is delegates, not raw votes, that count.
South Wales East is another region where it would probably be easier to weigh Labour votes than to count them.
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.
If none of the candidates gets more than 50% of votes at the first count, all but the top two candidates are knocked out and their second preference votes shared out.
Mr Grunshaw was elected after receiving 79, 790 votes (52.1%) in a count of second preference votes at Blackburn's King George's Hall.
At this step, the group takes the time to count the votes right.
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.
The percentages reflect tallies from slightly less than half of the polling stations as the count of votes from the August 20 elections continues.
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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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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.
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.
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.
Yet when reviewing other reasons (legal residents who haven't become U.S. citizens or feel that their votes don't count), it seems that one of the most important factors is that Latinos don't care.
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 people who count the votes decide everything.
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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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"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.
For now, most of us are hoping for a clean, efficient count of the votes.
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It is expected to take about two days to count all the votes.
Democrats can also count on the votes of two independents -- Sen.
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