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8:00 a.m. November 20, 2000: Florida County Begins Long Process of Manually Recounting Presidential Votes

2000-11-20 8:00 a.m.

Florida’s Miami-Dade County begins its actual recount of its presidential election votes (see November 7, 2000 and Before 10:00 a.m. November 19, 2000). Perhaps because the number of votes to recount is so large, the electors will soon decide to only count some 10,750 “undervotes,” or ballots lacking a clear presidential choice. [US News and World Report, 12/13/2000]