41.   Confidential vote counts by the most ardent supporters of universal health insurance show that House Democrats are far short of the votes needed to pass sweeping health care legislation.

42.   Conversely, if the ongoing vote count shows HP shareholders have rejected the merger, financial pressures on Compaq would force it to fire workers anyway, Anderson said.

43.   County Commissioner Karen Sonleitner notes that whatever other complaints people have about Travis County vote counts, challenges for accuracy are rare.

44.   DeBeauvoir was expecting a long night and a rerun of carping about slow vote counts.

45.   DeFrancesco said mistakes were made in the vote count but attributed them to human error and said they did not affect the outcome.

46.   Democrats took to the microphones and the Senate floor Tuesday to say there was no need to rush the vote count.

47.   Democrats asked for manual recounts in Palm Beach, Broward, Volusia and Miami-Dade counties on the grounds that every voter deserves to have his vote count.

48.   During the vote count, the computers went down mysteriously and when they came back up, Salinas and PRI had won.

49.   Even computerized vote counts are open to programming errors and allegations of fraud, the experts say.

50.   Every vote counts, especially when counted badly.