1.   Both courts said that vote counters should be given leeway to try to figure out what each voters intent was.

2.   A ballot of this kind should be allowed to be counted in Florida if a county canvassing board finds that it shows voter intent.

3.   A dimpled ballot should be allowed if a county canvassing board finds that it shows voter intent.

4.   But the project also showed the inherent difficulties of finding voter intent on punch-card ballots on which the chads were not dislodged.

5.   Counters will use their judgment to determine voter intent, without categorically excluding any ballots.

6.   Democrats have asked the court to impose a uniform standard that would guide the recounts and include dimpled ballots in order to gauge voter intent.

7.   Divine voter intent in chad-challenged machine ballots?

8.   Florida is about to take another step to ensure that it will never endure another post-election period marked by hanging chads, butterfly ballots and debates over voter intent.

9.   Florida law says that voter intent should be the guiding principle of vote counters.

10.   Hand ballot recounts are an essential part of election law in Florida and other states, and the most accurate method of objectively determining voter intent.