The Post, which used a more restrictive standard than The Herald, concluded that Bush would have gained 251 votes and Gore would have gained 245 votes. No overvotes, or ballots where machines detected more than one presidential vote, were counted. The certified results in Miami-Dade were 328,808 votes for Gore and 289,533 for Bush, according to the Florida secretary of state's office. Statewide, Bush won Florida by 537 votes out of about 6 million cast. I wonder what the count would have been if the media hadn't cheated, and called Florida before the west had a chance to close.
Reality is too cruel.
The three media organizations hired the national accounting firm of BDO Seidman to examine all 60,000 undervotes in Florida's 67 counties. The results from Miami-Dade are the first released, and complete results are expected within weeks. It found that 1,555 ballots had some indication the voter wanted Gore and 1,506 indicated Bush. The rest were either marked, but not on a candidate's name, or were for other candidates. Dimpled chads accounted for 1,202 of the 1,555 potential Gore votes and 1,092 of the 1,506 potential Bush votes.