1.   And the group said each state should adopt uniform standards for recounts and resolving disputed ballots, while the federal government should develop standards for voting equipment recount rules.

2.   And the strongest evidence of all that legal votes were rejected were the disputed ballots themselves, they said.

3.   Another e-mail contained a newspaper story about first- and fourth-graders in Shreveport, La., successfully using the disputed ballot in a mock election.

4.   As a result, most advisers in the Bush camp want the U.S. Supreme Court to settle the issue and nullify further recounts of disputed ballots.

5.   As the clock wound down, with each second precious, the board began handing disputed ballots off to four two-person teams to sort.

6.   Ballot by ballot, the three canvassing board members worked through envelopes of the disputed ballots, holding the ballots up to the light.

7.   Because the best evidence that legal votes were rejected lies in the disputed ballots, the Gore team said, the court must count them.

8.   A large group of counters, he said, could go through the disputed ballots in a few days.

9.   After all, there is no perfect way to decide which disputed ballots should be counted and rejected.

10.   Bush won the election by one electoral vote, with the immutable help of the U.S. Supreme Court, which effectively stopped efforts to recount disputed ballots in Florida.