Quick reality check here:
The number of counties won by Bush and Gore has no relation to the popular vote in itself because counties range in population from a few hundred to millions. There is also no correlation between the population of a state and the number of counties.
Gore won the most heavily populated urban counties by wide margins while Bush won most of the least populous rural counties.
An interesting statistic, to be sure, but hardly indicative of vote tampering.
We previously solved the mystery on FR as to how over 13,000 punch cards in Palm Beach County had a Buchanan hole punched in it and I have neither the time nor desire to walk you through it, but if you go to my bookmarked posts you should be able to digest the data for yourself. BTW, the spin that the voters in Palm Beach County were incompetent was used to cover up the incompetent Gore operatives that tampered with the ballots and punched the wrong hole. The proof is in the ballots, that is the reason for the delay in the media's results.