It's going to be a few more weeks until the newspaper consortium that includes the New York Times and Washington Post finishes its work of examining the 110,000 overvotes as well. Any posthumous moral victories are going to have to wait until then. If that hadn't happened, Al Gore could well be in the White House right now. The paper concluded that Gore would be in the White House today if those ballots had been counted. In county after county, the number of ballots produced for the newspapers' examination of so-called undervotes, ballots on which no preference for president registered, failed to match the totals reported by those counties in the immediate aftermath of the election last November.
Democracy requires the consent of the governed.
That consent was never given. The African American viewpoint in Florida Fla. 'Overvotes' Hit Democrats The Hardest Florida media recounts offer mixed results Recount update from Salon - Why USA Today and the Miami Herald delayed publishing their results. The goal, though, is not to reach consensus but to amass data that consortium members can crunch as they see fit. There are just too many ways to count the leftovers from this lousy election. An analysis of over-votes only.