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To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (30080)	11/13/2002 9:00:34 PM
From: sandintoes	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 59480

Here we go again...I heard that in one of the counties in question, there were more votes cast for democrats, than voters in that county. foxnews.com Two Alabama Counties Agree to Recount Wednesday, November 13, 2002 TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Election officials in two counties have granted Gov. Don Siegelman's request to recount the votes from last week's election for governor that showed Republican Bob Riley with a 3,117-vote lead. Siegelman said the recounts in Tuscaloosa and Russell counties are the first step in a statewide recount that he is "absolutely sure" will show he has been re-elected. "I have no doubt in my mind that Don Siegelman won this race," the governor said while touring Fort McClellan in Anniston on Tuesday. Siegelman said thousands of ballots might have been discarded because they were not marked properly. The ballots are similar to standardized tests given in schools and are run through an optical scanner after being marked. Even though the election system has been used in Alabama for several years, Siegelman said the poor and uneducated "didn't necessarily know the right technique to vote an optical scan ballot." James Smith, Tuscaloosa County Democratic chairman, said the three members of the county's election canvassing board approved a recount Tuesday, pending the posting of a $5,000 bond to cover the recount, and the bond was quickly posted. County officials did not immediately set a date for the recount, but state law requires the county to give both sides 24 hours notice. Siegelman's supporters petitioned for a recount Friday in every Alabama county. Attorney General Bill Pryor initially blocked it by issuing an advisory opinion, which said the ballots that were sealed after being counted Nov. 5 can't be unsealed for the recount that Siegelman's supporters want. But Tuscaloosa County Probate Judge Hardy McCollum, one of the three officials who approved the recount, told The Tuscaloosa News he disagrees with Pryor's view. The News reported on its Web site Tuesday that the recount was approved. "I'm not nervous at all," the Democratic official said. "I've been doing this for 26 years, and I think I understand the election laws pretty well. The election laws provide for recounts." Officials in Russell County also said they would begin recounting votes there Thursday, the Mobile Register reported in its Wednesday editions. County Probate Judge Albert Howard said he based his decision on a previous interpretation of the law by the secretary of state. "The attorney general's opinion is not effective law," Howard, a Democrat, told the Register. "He is either politically posturing or ignorant of the relief provided under the law." Matt Lembke, Riley's chief attorney, said the Riley campaign had not taken any legal action and is hopeful county officials will reconsider. "The attorney general made it clear that anyone who breaks those seals is committing a crime," Lembke said. Smith said Tuscaloosa County had a recount four years ago that was requested by the Republican loser in a state Senate race, and it proceeded without any problems. It did not change the winner in the race, he said.