21.   If it did, the vote counted.

22.   If it is only attached by one side and two corners, the vote counts.

23.   If you were confused by a butterfly ballot, your vote does not count.

24.   If only the popular vote counted, candidates would obviously concentrate their campaigning on the places with the most people.

25.   If the military neglected to postmark your absentee ballot, your vote does not count.

26.   Immediately after the elections, analysts told us that this experience would teach us that every vote counts.

27.   In a district with such razor-thin margins of victory, every vote counts.

28.   In much of the country, vote counting, which is done by hand, was proceeding slowly.

29.   It is worth hearing a lot of nasty commercials to get a contest in which everyone can imagine that his vote might really count.

30.   It will be demonstrated that the electoral system is shoddy and that every vote counts.