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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chalu2 who wrote (1167)	11/19/2000 10:47:50 AM
From: Ellen	Respond to of 3887

> I watched Republican Governor Racicot on TV. To his eternal credit, he noted that an error regarding placing a few Bush ballots in a Gore pile was pointed out by the Democrat ballot reviewer to his Republican counter-part. The error was corrected by a Democrat in other words. Why, also, do we not hear that dimpled chad ballots are not being counted in Palm Beach County by Democrat officials there? This has resulted so far in the rejection of over 150 Gore votes. < This re-emphasizes to me that these average, everyday people who are graciously giving their time to participate in the manual recount are trying to do a good, decent and fair job. cnn.com Democrats protest exclusion of ballots in Palm Beach County November 19, 2000 Web posted at: 1:36 a.m. EST (0636 GMT) From CNN Producer Mike Ahlers and Correspondent John Zarrella WEST PALM BEACH, Florida (CNN) -- Democratic party attorneys Saturday protested a decision by the Palm Beach County Canvassing Board to exclude from its recount about 150 ballots with dimpled chads from one of the county's precincts. The three-member all-Democratic canvassing board decided last week to count only those votes where the chad was perforated from the ballot, and to exclude votes where the chad was "dimpled," or punched but not perforated. Dennis Newman, an attorney for the Democratic Party, complained the board tossed out 150 dimpled ballots from precinct 162E. Hand count results in 'little movement' Newman said it appeared the voting machine used to punch the ballots jammed in the No. 5 hole, which would have registered a vote for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore. He likened the problem to a 3-hole puncher not cutting completely through the paper. Gore received about 1,100 votes in that precinct, Newman said, while Texas Gov. George W. Bush received roughly 200. This was the first precinct where a large number of ballots were contested. Earlier, the chairman of the county's canvassing board said initial hand-counting of ballots had resulted in little movement for either presidential candidate. "From what I'm seeing, I'm not seeing much of a change," said Charles Burton. As the counting teams wrapped up their work Saturday night, about 156,000 ballots out of 462,000 had been recounted, or about 34 percent. Officials estimate they finished counting votes from about 202 of the county's 531 precincts. Few disputes between observers But the members of the canvassing board were expected to stay much later to review ballots the counting teams had tagged as "questionable." Burton said there had been few disputes between GOP and Democratic Party observers. Asked whether there had been many "dimpled" ballots, he said, "very, very, very few." Twenty-five teams of counters -- plus Democratic and Republican Party observers -- were working two seven-hour shifts to recount the ballots.