One Republican in the meeting said the lobbyists were "proven vote counters."

Those are the problems that have bedeviled the vote counters in Florida.

"Nobody walks into this with any illusions," said one of the principal Administration vote counters.

Vote counters said it was now almost certain that a veto would be overridden in the Senate.

Officials considered both mathematical errors on the part of vote counters and fraud to be possible explanations.

No official results are expected until Monday, when vote counters will resume work after taking Sunday off.

One opposition vote counter said that the administration and the opposition could each count on 210 votes.

Those provisions attracted about 20 lawmakers who might otherwise have opposed the measure, vote counters said.

This time, according to vote counters on both sides, sixty-six votes are a lock.

You mean, the notorious GOP vote counter who "found" the needed votes under her bed?

(And if not, the voter is in a position to prove the vote counters cheated.)

The suit seeks to remove from each machine a key known as the zero key, which is used to reset the vote counter.

Both houses are expected to vote on the amendment next month, and vote counters of both parties say the outcome is too close to call.

But he is still waiting on vote counters and judges in Florida to submit a bid to the White House.

The Elections Commission ordered vote counters and poll watchers to bring flashlights this time.

Sam holds a House leadership role as one of the few Deputy Whips (vote counters).

In the case of a write-in vote, the oval alerts vote counters that a name has been entered by hand.

Mr. Coelho is widely respected by his colleagues as one of the best vote counters in the House.

I'm a pretty good vote counter."

Vote counters have been bribed and ballot boxes have disappeared after suspicious blackouts.

In a scene replayed later on the prime-time television news, vote counters peered down the long rows in the chamber looking for raised hands.

Democratic vote counters still insist that there were enough uncommitted members to allow Mr. Clinton to escape impeachment.

Yesterday, two days after the last round of court challenges ended, the vote counters resumed their work in a large, cluttered room in Lower Manhattan.

Alcibiades Araus, a vote counter for the Government coalition's biggest party, said troops went to his polling place, a school, shortly after midnight.

He is strengthening ties with his leadership lieutenants, like Mr. DeLay, the chief Republican vote counter.