If the election is close after recounting Floridian votes, each absentee ballot will need to be counted. Some of those ballots will not be in until next week. According to DeLaat, if Bush wins Florida and not Oregon, he'll have 271 electoral votes, one more than he needs to be elected. That's the number he had early Wednesday morning, before Florida votes were recounted. It shows the importance of voting.
Every vote does count.
It's given us a great civic lesson in the electoral college. Foraker said the electoral college has been taken for granted because for the most part, candidates have won both the popular vote and the electoral college vote. Clinton's impeachment, which happens once in a blue moon, and now this. Foraker believes Bush will prevail in Florida, by a slim margin. It doesn't bode well for either candidate's agenda.