For the past six hours, I have applied these criteria in deliberating upon the specific requests of the counties contemplating manual vote recounts.

Elections officials had tallied less than a tenth of the ballots when the United States Supreme Court halted the vote recounts across Florida on Saturday afternoon.

Hanging above the proceedings was the pending decision by the United States Supreme Court about whether to approve the vote recounts the Florida Supreme Court had ordered on Friday.

He requested vote recounts from Croatia's Constitutional Court stating that many deceased people were not only registered to vote but also cast votes in the election; a problem that the Croatian government has faced multiple times.

After 137,613 invalid votes recounted, only 2,137 were revalidated (1.6% of recounted invalid votes), 1,169 votes for Traian Băsescu and 968 for Mircea Geoană.

The company was concerned that multiple answers could lead to problems similar to those that plagued the presidential vote recounts in Florida.

Barnes was elected to the West Virginia State Senate in 2004, defeating then 12-year incumbent Mike Ross in a close race that concluded after two vote recounts.

Additionally, lawyers for Mr. Bush asked the United States Supreme Court to overturn the Florida Supreme Court's ruling that manual vote recounts must be included in the state's final tally.

After multiple vote recounts and a point where four men took the oath of office claiming they had the rights to the governorship, the matter was given to the state legislature for resolution.