I know this is late to the party, but I need to add something. After the dust settled around the election of 2000 in Florida, the New York Times did their own recount of the questioned ballots. Since they are a bastion of communism not easily confused with being the objective journalists they are supposed to be, it’s pretty obvious they wanted a particular result.
As much as they tried to massage those hanging chads, they still came up with the result that Bush won. Of course, that story was buried.
I'm glad you brought this up. The New York Times was not the only media source who conducted their own recount and discovered the vote count elected Bush.