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Article: Bush inches ahead in New Mexico vote: ; Texas governor leads by just four votes
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 12, 2000
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - In yet another strange twist to the elongated
presidential election, Gov. George W. Bush of Texas late Friday took
the lead from Vice President Al Gore in the race to claim New
Mexico's five electoral votes with what now stands as the slimmest
statewide margin in the country and one of the narrowest in American
history. After 257 missing ballots were found Friday, and
Bernalillo County officials decided to count 379 ballots by hand
that had been rejected by electronic voting machines Tuesday, Bush
led Gore by just four votes - among nearly 600,000 cast.
The count was 285,644 for Bush, and 285,640 for Gore, according
to totals from the state and the county.
"We are very ...