1.   But the data also show that Al Gore would have emerged the victor if all the rejected ballots -- undervotes and overvotes -- had been counted.

2.   In Martin County, Tom Hauck, a local Republican official, removed the rejected ballots from the elections office and had the proper voter identification numbers added.

3.   In Pensacola, Republican lawyers have asked a federal judge to count hundreds of rejected overseas ballots, mostly from military personnel.

4.   It then assigned these ballots to Bush or Gore according to the percentage of valid votes each candidate received in the precinct where the rejected ballots were cast.

5.   It was there that one rejected ballot was discovered.

6.   The canvassing board did not examine the rejected ballots on election night.

7.   Both sides believe Bush lost more votes than Gore in the rejected ballots.

8.   Democrats sought the ruling hoping that thousands of previously rejected ballots could be counted.

9.   Earlier, Hood, the Republican chairman of the canvassing board, defended the examination and counting of the rejected ballots.

10.   Hutchinson, a Democrat, said he was opposed to counting the rejected ballots because so many of them were in bad shape.