Lake County (57% for Bush)
The Orlando Sentinel (click
to read article) inspected more than 6,000 overvotes (they did not look
at undervotes) in Lake County and found more than 600 legal votes.
The discarded ballot contained 376 Gore votes and 246 Bush votes, a net
gain of 130 votes for Gore. Similar overvotes were canvassed during
the automatic recount in Seminole, Gadsden,
Polk, and Orange County.
Hillsborough
County (52% for Bush)
The Tampa Bay Tribune
(click to read article) canvassed Hillsborough's 5,282 undervotes (they
did not consider overvotes).
Total Gore gain if counting all indications of voter intent: 120
Total Gore gain if only counting ballots with penetrated chads: 23
Here is the breakdown of exactly what was found on the undervore ballots
as reported by Anothy York of Salon.com
http://www.salonmag.com/politics/feature/2001/01/03/recount/print.html
Total undervotes: 5,282
No mark: 3,655
Punched clearly but not tallied by machine:
Bush:47
Gore: 42
Hanging chad total:
Bush 91
Gore 119
Dimpled chads:
Bush: 660
Gore: 757
Dade County
The Palm Beach Post completed its review of Dade County's 10,600 undervotes
(they did not count overvotes). A breakdown of the vote types was
not provided in the aricle (click here
for article). Roughly 500 ballots with dimpled chads and hanging
chads were found, the net total of which had they been counted would have
given Bush six additional votes.
Here is an excerpt from that article by Clay Lambert and Bill Douthat:
"If everything were counted -- from the faintest dimple to chads barely
hanging on ballots -- 251 additional votes would have gone to Bush and
245 more would have gone to Gore, The Post review showed. The review, concluded
last week, also showed that the vast majority of ballots rejected as under-votes
(meaning there was no clear punch for any candidate) when counted by machine
appeared, in fact, to cast no vote for president. About 7,600 under-votes
had no mark at all on the
presidential column, or in rare cases included multiple votes
that defied judgment. Most of the voters who did not indicate a vote for
president did punch choices in other races.
But at least 2,257 voters apparently poked at their ballot cards without
properly inserting them into the voting machines. Miami-Dade County Elections
Supervisor David Leahy said that's because the voters failed to follow
directions. Of these miscast votes, 302 more would have gone for
Gore than Bush, under Leahy's theory."
Orange County (click here for article)
The Orlando Sentinel reports:
"Al Gore would have gained more than 200 extra votes if Orange County
had conducted a hand recount of all its ballots that machines could not
read after the Nov. 7 election.
Results of a new hand count released Friday by Orange County election officials, and an Orlando Sentinel examination of rejected ballots, found clear presidential votes on 799 ballots for which counting machines had detected no vote or votes for multiple candidates.
The findings show that -- had Orange County’s canvassing board
examined all its ballots -- George W. Bush would have gained 298 votes
and Gore would have picked up an additional 501. That would have
given Gore a net gain of 203 votes -- equivalent to more than a third of
Bush’s 537-vote winning margin in Florida."
Collier County (click here for article)
This report did not break the findings down into groups, they simply noted a net gain of 226 votes for Bush, "assuming that all dimples, pin pricks, chads and other obvious ballot markings would have counted — a subjective standard — Bush gained another 770 votes in Collier County. Gore would have gained an additional 544 votes."
Total number of undervotes: 2,080
Bush votes: 770
Gore votes: 544
No vote cast: 613
Misaligned votes (Spaces punched for no listed candidate): 106
Other candidates' votes: 31
Overvotes (more than one candidate): 16
Small County Count (click here for article)
Please note, this count seems to also include the previously reported Lake County results of 130 net Gore votes.
The Orlando Sentinel Reports:
"Thousands of potential presidential votes were lost in Florida's most
error-prone counties because of confusing ballot designs, inconsistent
counting methods or because elections officials simply never looked
at ballots that were rejected by machines.
The first examination of ballots in the state's 15 counties with the highest rate of discarded votes found more than 1,700 ballots on which a voter's choice for president could be easily determined.
The 15,596 discarded ballots, examined in a joint project by the Orlando Sentinel, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel and the Chicago Tribune, were identified by elections officials as "overvotes" or "undervotes," meaning counting machines either detected multiple votes for president or no votes at all.
While all but one of the mostly Republican counties were won by George
W. Bush, the study showed that most of the clear votes that were thrown
out were for Al Gore. In fact, had canvassing boards tallied those ballots
during Florida's long recount, Gore would have seen a net gain of 366 votes
-- equivalent to two-thirds of Bush's 537-vote winning margin statewide."