Media-sponsored recount in Florida slants results to legitimize Bush election

The real result of the Herald/USA Today study shows that Gore won a statewide victory by a margin ranging from 363 to over 1,000 votes, depending on the criterion for accepting dimpled ballots. The Herald conceded this in a story published April 5, entitled, “Recounts could have given Gore the edge.” The article explained: “Had the Broward and Palm Beach canvassing boards used the loosest standard in judging ballots and finished the recount by the court-set deadline—which Palm Beach did not meet— Gore almost certainly would have won. He might have gained 2,022 votes in the two counties when Bush’s state lead was only 903 (emphasis added). In other words, Gore’s margin would have increased to 1,119, more than enough to comfortably secure him Florida’s 25 electoral votes and thus the presidency.