21.   Now whether those votes were counted as part of the certification process or not, once you know there was valid votes...

22.   Republicans maintain that tiny indentations, or dimples, in the perforated punch-card ballots should not be considered valid votes.

23.   Republicans maintain that dimples in the perforated punchcard ballots should not be considered valid votes.

24.   Republicans maintain that dimples in the perforated punch-card ballots should not be considered valid votes.

25.   Republicans note the ballots were run through vote-counting machines twice and say they contain no valid votes for president.

26.   That scenario features counting dimpled chads as valid votes if a pattern of dimpled chads exists elsewhere on the same ballot.

27.   The Bush campaign counters that these ballots have been counted but did not contain valid votes for president.

28.   The overwhelming majority of voters who used the ballot in this election understood it and they cast valid votes.

29.   The Republicans say the votes were run through vote-counting machines twice and contain no valid votes for president.

30.   Therefore the petitioners claim it is illegal, and the blank slips should be included in the total number of valid votes.