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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Frank Griffin who wrote (70878)11/12/2000 12:45:14 AM
From: jhild  Read Replies (1) of 769667
 
You should be a little careful about spreading your Jacksonville story. There seems to be a problem with their communication with the Gore campaign. I read that the County
Supervisor of Elections evidently misled the Gore campaign because he reported when asked that there were only a couple of hundred such ballots. The Gore people therefore didn't ask for a recount. Based on the newly disclosed number they claim they would have made the request.

EDIT: Here's the excerpt:
Mike Langton, chairman of the northeast Florida Gore campaign, reacted angrily to news of the 26,000 nullified votes. He said he had learned of them too late to ask for a manual recount, which under Florida law must be requested within 72 hours of the election.

He said Stafford had told him only 200 to 300 votes were nullified. Johnson said Langton had misunderstood what Stafford had said.

"I sure as hell would have requested a manual recount if I had known 27,000 votes were nullified," Langton said. "We were harmed because we didn't find out in time to ask for a recount."

"He (Stafford) was either incompetent or he was purposely misleading," Langton said.

"I don't know what is going on, but it rises to the level of hanky-panky," Langton said.

Langton said he had notified the state and national Gore campaigns of the situation.

washingtonpost.com
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