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November 20, 2000 

WASHINGTON--(UNB/AP) - Even after two weeks of election wrangling, 61 percent of Americans say it's more important to be sure the Florida vote count is fair and accurate than it is to have the presidency decided quickly, a Newsweek poll said.

In the magazine's telephone poll, interviewers asked people whether they thought it was more important to get "matters resolved as soon as possible so we know who our next president is" or to make "certain to remove all reasonable doubt that the vote count has been fair and accurate."

The poll said 61 percent of adults said it was more important to make sure the vote was accurate, while 36 percent said it was more important to end the process. Three percent said they didn't know.

However, the numbers are changing as time passes by. A week ago, 72 percent said it was important to get an accurate count and 25 percent said it was important to get the process finished, pollsters said.

Americans were evenly split on whether they thought machine or hand counting was best, pollsters said Saturday. Interviewers said 44 percent of those asked thought hand counting was less fair and accurate than machine counting, while 43 percent said they thought hand counting was more accurate than machine counting. Five percent said both ways of counting was about the same and 8 percent said they didn't know.

Pollsters interviewed 1,000 adults by telephone on Thursday and Friday. The margin of error was plus or minus 4 percentage points.