21. A coherent, lucid system for casting and counting ballots must be adopted before the next presidential election. 22. According to commission member Leon Panetta, the report also urges states to develop uniform voting standards for counting ballots. 23. Broward County had already been counting its ballots, and Miami-Dade County will decide Friday whether to recount. 24. Broward will count such ballots, but most in the county have not yet been tallied. 25. Bush supporters dismissed the hand count as a flawed, outdated way to count ballots. 26. But if all the ballots had been counted fairly, Gore would have won. 27. But in its response, the Bush campaign said the justices did not have the power under law to rule on the standards for counting ballots. 28. But in a response to the court the Bush campaign said the justices did not have the power under law to rule on the standards for counting ballots. 29. But in a response to the court, the Bush campaign said the justices did not have the power under law to rule on the standards for counting ballots. 30. But the law also says that no ballot should be counted where more than one candidate is chosen. |