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To: microhoogle! who wrote (79882)	11/17/2000 2:56:43 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 769667

Democrats Hypocrritical Double Standard Revealed... gopbi.com Friday, November 17 Hopeful asks, why no hand count in Sept.? By George Bennett, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Friday, November 17, 2000 Back in September, when Palm Beach County's elections canvassing board couldn't even get on government cable Channel 20, state House candidate Beverly Green asked for a hand recount after losing a GOP primary by 14 votes. Tough luck, the board said. Green had to settle for a machine recount, which added one vote to her total. So Green saw red this week when the canvassing board met before an international television audience and board member Carol Roberts, a Democratic county commissioner, said she was ready to go to jail to make sure the county's 462,657 ballots were hand-counted in the presidential race. "Partisan politics," claimed Green. "She (Roberts) wants to see Gore win." Green played some partisan politics of her own Thursday. Ushered by the George W. Bush campaign and U.S. Rep. Mark Foley, R-West Palm Beach, Green came to the media village outside the county emergency operations center and accused the canvassing board of a "double standard" for denying her a hand recount while granting one to Al Gore's campaign. "Here we are, eight weeks later, and they want to change the rules. I submit to the American public that it's all subjective," Green said. Local GOP leaders considered Green, a former school board member who is black, the party's only hope of winning in heavily black, heavily Democratic state House District 84. Green said Roberts wouldn't support a hand recount for her because "Democrats didn't want me to pull that primary." The canvassing board wasn't obligated to grant Green any recount because she trailed Orlando by 0.68 percent on election night, more than the 0.5 percent that triggers a recount. "It was only 2,049 votes," Green said of the District 84 primary ballots the board wouldn't hand-count. "Now they want to count half a million?"