41.   So every vote counts.

42.   So, even if Independents vote for McCain, as they did in New Hampshire, their votes will not count toward the nomination.

43.   Sympathy votes count for nothing on my list.

44.   Still, many of the dozens of residents interviewed stressed that they want their votes to count.

45.   That, they said, is why they wanted every vote to count.

46.   The answer is tough investigations of what happened in the voting and vote counting, uncompromised by the false notion that avoidance of controversy will be healing.

47.   The judges would not know for a year if their vote counted.

48.   The sanctity of the vote, the idea that every vote counts.

49.   Their vote would have counted.

50.   Their votes will count if it turns out they were registered, but somehow were inadvertently dropped from the rolls or went to the wrong polling place.