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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Scrapps who wrote (71574)	11/12/2000 4:28:09 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

After rescanning in Polk, Gore loses 90 votes from Election Day total By Vickie Chachere Associated Press Writer Bartow (11/12/00) -- Polk County elections workers and campaign representatives pushed through a grueling 17-hour day only to find out early Sunday morning that Gore lost a crucial 90 votes from his Election Day total in a single precinct. Polk was completing a routine exercise of reconciling accounting errors in 92 of its 163 precincts. It happened in a predominantly black voting precinct in Lakeland where the vice president had dominated the count. The error was a larger example of the minor discrepancies that had shown up in other precincts. Polk County uses a system where ballots are marked with a pen and scanned into a machine; most of the ballots are counted at the precincts throughout Election Day while late voters' ballots are sent to the supervisor of elections' office for counting. Elections officials said it appears that poll workers counted 90 ballots that had already been scanned at the precinct, but put them in an envelope marked for unscanned ballots. When the envelope was returned to headquarters for a final count, the 90 ballots were counted a second time. The large error put a quick damper on what had been a jovial atmosphere. Workers even took a brief break from the final hours of their counting to catch a Saturday Night Live skit lampooning Gore; the room roaring in laughter at the punch lines. Gore campaign workers quickly demanded to see the voter log books to count for themselves. Bob Grizzard, an attorney who is with Polk County's Democratic Party's executive committee, said he couldn't tell what impact that lost votes would have in the statewide race. It made no difference in Polk where Bush won the county with a fat 15,000 vote margin. ``We don't know because we don't what the (statewide) the count is,'' Grizzard said At the end of the count, Bush picked up a total of 104 votes while Gore could only add seven to his Polk tally. Election authorities stopped short of making the figures official pending a meeting at 10 a.m. Monday to certify the totals and report those to the state. Copyright© 2000, The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed gopbi.com