The Miami-Herald recently completed its own recount of the Miami Dade “undervote” totals. The result?
Al Gore would have netted no more than 49 votes if a manual recount of Miami-Dade’s ballots had been completed, according to the review, which was sponsored by The Herald and its parent company, Knight Ridder. That would have been 140 too few to overcome Bush’s lead, even when joined with Gore gains in Volusia, Palm Beach and Broward counties — the three other counties where Gore had requested manual recounts.