Republicans generally count on Florida as a must-win state in the state-by-state battle to accumulate the 270 electoral votes necessary to claim the White House.

共和党人普遍指望，要想在逐州的征战中积累270张选举人票问鼎白宫，佛罗里达州是一个势在必得的州。

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So many shareholders cast votes that it took the bank longer than expected to count them all.

这么多的股东进行了投票，以至于银行花了比预料更多的时间来计票。

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They forced election officials to count their illegal votes.

他们强迫选举官员将非法投票计算在内。

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In the old days, it took a long time to count the votes from the November elections.

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Many of them carried guns. They forced election officials to count their illegal votes.

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The statement also calls on both commissions to "rigorously carry out their legal mandates to count all votes and to exclude all fraudulent votes."

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That apparently includes Florida, which is continuing to count votes, but which Mr. Romney's Florida campaign said Thursday he is likely to lose.

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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.

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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.

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