71.   His aides were clearly despondent, but insisted things would be different when the votes actually count.

72.   How can we teach our children that every vote counts if we are not willing to make a good-faith effort to count every vote?

73.   In a popular-vote system, Clinton said, a candidate resigned to losing a state might campaign there anyhow because every vote would count.

74.   If only the popular vote counted, then it would make no difference where a candidate picked up a vote.

75.   In an election so close, every vote counted.

76.   In other words, if the chad is pregnant, the vote may count.

77.   In the White House, President Clinton said he hoped Americans learned the lesson that their vote does count.

78.   Kandir, a former planning minister and champion of the bill, pushed the wrong button, and his vote counted as an abstention.

79.   Let our votes count.

80.   Lawyers for Gore have stayed out of the lawsuits because they are arguing in other legal challenges that every vote should count.