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DOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENTCLINTONDOWNSIDE LEGACY AT TWO DEGREES OF PRESIDENT CLINTONSECTION: THE RECOUNTSUBSECTION: AllRevised 1/8/01

BEFORE THE RECOUNT:

Foxnews.com 11/7/00 Matt Gross "......George W. Bush has won one of the closest presidential races inhistory, according to Fox News Channel projections. ....Just after 2 a.m. ET, Fox News projected that theTexas governor had taken Florida, whose 25 electoral votes put him over the critical 269-vote mark. Goreofficials said they would contest the Florida results. ....."

The New York Times 11/8/00 Richard Berke "...... George Walker Bush was elected the 43rd president of theUnited States yesterday by one of the tightest margins in history, crowning a spectacular and exceptionallybrisk political rise only eight years after his own father was turned out of the White House. The victory overVice President Al Gore became clear well after 2 this morning after one of the most fiercely contestedbattlegrounds, Florida, slipped into his column after the most suspenseful election night in decades, with thefortunes of each candidate shifting almost by the hour. Only hours earlier, the networks had projected thatMr. Gore would carry Florida, where Mr. Bush's brother Jeb is governor. ......"

Newsmax 11/7/00 "...... George W. Bush has been elected president in one of the closest races ever. He didso during a time of great peace and prosperity - all of which should have benefited Al Gore. But you helpedBush win. The talk radio show hosts across America - the listeners - the Internet users - the grass roots ofthe Republican Party who wanted reform - made the difference. Exit polls showed that honesty andtrustworthiness was the No. 1 concern for voters across America. Seventy-eight percent of Bush voters saidthey voted for Bush on this issue. This election was a repudiation of Bill Clinton. Other factors helped as well.One was little Elian and his heroic mother. She perished trying to bringing her son to America. His freedom,thanks to Clinton-Reno, was ripped from the privacy of his home. Cuban-Americans, who voted for BillClinton in 1992 and 1996, remembered Elian on Election Day. ...."

DURING THE RECOUNT

Reuters 11/8/00 Thomas Ferraro "......An hour after Democrat Al Gore conceded defeat to RepublicanGeorge W. Bush in their White House race, he called back and said, ``circumstances have changed,''according to an aide. ..... Gore said updated election returns showed him losing Florida by about 600 votes,rather than the 50,000 earlier reported, and said the margin was close enough to trigger an automaticrecount, the aide said. .... The aide said he overheard only Gore's side of the telephone conservation. Buthe quoted the vice president as telling Bush, something to the effect, ``'Do what you have to do.''' .....Goremade the call at about 3:30 a.m. EST from a room at Nashville's War Memorial Plaza, just moments beforehe was to publicly concede defeat to a rain-drenched crowd. ......The aide said, ``The vice president toldBush, 'Circumstances have changed since I first called you. We have now learned we are down by onlyabout 600 votes out of millions cast and that means an automatic recount.''' ``'I need to withdraw myconcession until the situation is clear,''' the aide quoted the vice president as saying. ``Then Al said, 'Let meexplain: If in fact I lose in Florida, I will immediately concede. But it's not in any way clear I have lost and untilit is clear I can't concede,''' the aide said......."

CNN 11/8/00 Margaret Carlson/Tucker Carlson Freeper Arthur McGowan "...... Margaret Carlson on CNN justpointed out the backdrop of flags, etc., in the Gore appearance today. Tucker Carlson questioned why theGore people continually point out that he is ahead in the pop vote--What point are they trying to make? heasked. ....." .... Freeper doppelganger adds "..... Gore likely wouldn't be ahead in the popular vote if thenetworks hadn't given him Florida (and by implication the election) so early in the evening. Western voteswere lost to Bush, even those in conservative western Florida where polls were still open. How about a classaction suit against the networks from everyone whose votes were suppressed by this outrage? ....." FreeperAzzurri adds "..... Many absentee ballots haven't been counted in Washington and perhaps California. Thenational popular vote may yet tip in Bush's favor. Not that it matters because the Electoral College will prevailin this election. ....."

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NewsChannel5 (WTVF - Nashville) 11/8/00 ".....His name is Max -- Max C. Williams. Max doesn't have asocial security number, but that doesn't stop us from making up one for him. With a few strokes of the pen,Max's application for a voter registration card is ready to mail. NewsChannel 5 investigative reporter PhilWilliams showed Max's application to Davidson County election administrator Michael McDonald. "Ifeverything is filled out correctly, would you send a voter registration card to this person?" Williams asks."Yes," McDonald replies. There's just one catch: Max isn't human. He's a cat. Because people can registerby mail, election officials may never see the individual -- or, in the case, the cat -- to whom they issue a voterregistration card. "With this social security number and everything, there's no way for us to tell unlesssomeone presents themselves as Max," McDonald adds. "You're exactly right."...."

Severnside 11/8/00 "..... Janet Reno may be in position to steal the election:

1. In cases of vote fraud the Feds are in charge. That means Janet Reno's Justice Department.

2.Many of the recent questions of the Immigration and Naturalization Service going overtime to turn illegalsinto voting US citizens involve South Florida. I think the Boston Globe had a story on this last Sunday. In anycase there have been INS rumors involving South Florida circulating on Capitol Hill for weeks. Recall that theINS is part of Reno's Justice Dept and the current head of the INS is the widow of John Huang's supervisor atthe Commerce Department.

3.In the new edition of "Year of the Rat" we devote an entire new chapter of the deal Reno cut with Clinton toprotect Gore from Chinagate. That's probably the strongest chapter in the new book. Bottom Line: Reno hasspent the past four years protecting Gore. Another few days will be right in line with this.

4. Reno was a Dem activist in South Florida and knows everyone. ...."

WRRK Radio (Pittsburgh PA) 11/8/00 Freeper tank_sherman "...... On this morning's Jim Quinn show callershave reported the following allegations:

- Republican names disappeared from voting rolls, even if long-time residents and regular voters

- Nursing home patients found to have voted by absentee ballots, even though they are paralyzed and can'twrite or suffer from Alzheimer's disease

- Local NAACP head (who is employed at the state mental hospital) observed driving mental patients in astate-owned van to the polls and "helping" them vote.

Massive voter fraud (close to 1 million votes) rumored in City of Philadelphia.

More instances being reported, but this is making me to ill to continue........ "

Freeper mountaineer 11/8/00 "..... I'll add something to the Tim Stevens (President of local NAACP) storyrecounted on Quinn this morning. They said the mental patients whom he transported to the polls were allnewly-registered as Democrats in the precinct where the state hospital is located, despite where they reallylived. If they showed up at that precinct and said they were registered Republicans, the poll workers toldthem they couldn't vote there, they had to be at their home precincts where they're registered. Insasmuch asthey were confined to a mental hospital and were relying on Tim Stevens for their transportation, theRepublicans didn't cast their votes. ..."

Freeper Neanderthal 11/8/00 Democrat Vote Fraud Charged in Florida Jack Thompson Tuesday, Nov. 7,2000 "......NewsMax.com's "Man in Miami," Jack Thompson, predicted Monday on NewsMax.com thatDemocrat vote fraud would occur in South Florida. The GOP in Broward County, the largest city of which isFort Lauderdale, is alleging that voting irregularities are now occurring there. What follows is a press releasein its entirety, received by Thompson from Republican Party of Broward County: "The Republican Party ofBroward County has received a number of complaints from its poll watchers and voters regardingirregularities at the polling places: "Such irregularities reported include

duplicate ballots

"Voters sent away for no apparent reason

"Poll watchers sent away for no apparent reason and a complete lack of cooperation by the poll workers"Irregular voting practices

"Poll watcher being harassed by the poll workers

"Campaigning being allowed inside the polling area

"Of particular concern are the poll watcher problems. The Republican Party and Republican Candidates,approved by the Supervisor of Elections, nominated these volunteers to deter irregularities and fraud, tosafeguard the elector process, and to monitor the behavior of the poll workers.

"The Republican Party of Broward County demands that the election code be adhered to and the law befollowed. The Republican Party will take the appropriate action, both civil and criminal, to guarantee a fairand free election.. ...

Florida Sun-Sentinal 11/7/00 Steve Friess "...... Hundreds of irate Palm Beach County voters, fearing they ortheir friends voted for Pat Buchanan instead of Al Gore, besieged the county Supervisor of Electionsdepartment on Tuesday with complaints about ballot confusion that could have swayed the race. In a contestthat saw a turnout expected to be about 70 percent with particularly high participation in precincts that areoverwhelmingly elderly or black, polls were so busy that voters were still in line a half-hour after the 7 p.m.closing time. Buchanan received more than 10 votes in more than 40 precincts by presstime, all of whichwere Democratic strongholds that otherwise went overwhelmingly for Gore. In precinct 162G, the Lakes ofDelray area where Gore received one of his highest vote totals in all of Palm Beach County, a county high of47 voters picked Buchanan, too. ......."People came out of there, and a lot of us don't know if we votedcorrectly," said Eleanor Merblum, 82, who voted at precinct 162E, a fire station on Hagen Ranch Road inWest Delray. "If Gore doesn't win this district, you know something's wrong." ...... Supervisor of ElectionsTheresa LePore, a Democrat, insisted any confusion was unintentional and defended the layout of thecluttered ballots as necessary to get all the presidential candidates on facing pages while making the typelarge enough for voters to read. "I was trying to make the print bigger so elderly people in Palm BeachCounty can read it," said LePore, who said she doesn't think the ballot is confusing. "If I'd made it small, theywould've said we made the print too small." ....... The Gore-Buchanan confusion may prompt an inquiry bythe Florida Attorney General's office. ...... "It's been presented to us to take a look at," said Paul Hancock,deputy attorney general in charge of the civil rights division. "The ballot really is confusing." ....."

Florida Sun-Sentinal 11/7/00 Steve Friess "...... "There's nothing wrong with the ballots in Palm BeachCounty," said Clay Roberts, director of the state division of elections. "The ballot is laid out according tostate law and the voting system they have. It's absurd to think that Theresa LePore is in some conspiracy totake votes away from Al Gore and given them to Pat Buchanan. That's absurd." ......... Panicked votersstarted calling Democratic Party offices shortly after the polls opened at 7 a.m., saying they worried theirintended votes for Gore went to Buchanan. Calls continued throughout the day, said Cathy Dubin, specialassistant to the county's Democratic Party chairwoman. By 11 a.m., the party dispersed fliers to its 260 pollwatchers, warning voters to be careful when voting for Gore. ....... "If me and Pat Buchanan are winningprecincts in my district, there is something wrong," Wexler said. At Temple Emeth, a heavily Democratic andelderly precinct in West Delray, more than 30 ballots were voided by 3 p.m., way more than the one or twovoided in a typical election, clerk Ann Swift said. In West Boynton, Gore workers greeted voters outside towarn them about the ballot. ....."

Freeper dictatorMA 11/8/00 "...... My friend Don just called me this a.m. to tell me that he personallywitnessed people entering polls at broward county locations and being allowed in to vote.. he says the localmedia down there is all over the story. If thats the case do we have any broward county freepers that canpost stories. ....."

Freeper Michael Rivero 11/8/00:

1. In Browards County, Republican Poll watchers are thrown out of the polls by poll workers. Republicans toldtheir names are not on the lists of registered voters and they are not able to vote.

2. In Tennessee, heavily Republican areas have only one viting machine each. Many Republicans, unable towait in the long lines, leave without voting. Democratic areas have a surplus of machines and no lines. .

3. In Chicago, voting machines set up in GOP districts are found to be defective. Voters are turned away. .

4. In Pennsylvania, Democratic voters are caught crossing county lines to vote multiple times, because theirnames appear repeatedly on lists of registered voters across the state. Efforts to clean up the voter listshave been blocked by a Democratic Federal Judge. Indictments were brought against two congressmen in avote fraud case sparked by the Voting Integrity Project investigation, but as is usual in such cases, thecharges were dropped. .

5. Checks in Indiana show that over 100,000 names on the voter lists are fakes. More than 500 cases ofmultiple registrations in different counties (allowing multiple votes) are found, according to an article in last

Sunday's Indianapolis Star. A cursory check found criminals, in this case a child molestor and threeconvicted killers, on the voting lists even though state law bars from voting anyone who has spent even 1day in jail. .

6. The Federal Election Commmision estimates that as much as 20% of the names on the voter lists acrossthe nation re bogus. .

7. In California, where it is illegal to ask a voter for proof of identity, non-citizens are encouraged to vote in aletter sent out by the California Democratic Party and signed by Bill Clinton. The letter includes a pre-printed"Voter Identification Card" the recipient is supposed to show poll workers to be allowed to vote. TheCalifornia GOP is reportedly seeking legal redress for this obvious sham. .

8. By comparing voter rolls with Social Security data, the Indianapolis Star found over 300 dead peopleregistered to vote, most in Lake County, whch has a repitation for vote fraud. The dead people haveremained on the active rolls long enough to indicate that their names have been used in voting. .

9. A check on voting lists by a local TV station just days before the Nov 7th election revealed 15,000 deadpeople on the active voting lists in Georgia. In one case, a dead person had voted three times since hisdeath. .

10. The "Motor voter" law, which created millions of registered voters who usually do not vote, specificallyforbids the purging of voter rolls for non-voting. This creates a huge surplus of legitmate registered votersfor whom absentee ballots may be created. .

11. Just days before the last election, the Tennessee election commission changed the rles to allow anyonewith a Tennessee drivers license to vote, whether they were registered or not. This allowed Tennesseans tovote in as many counties as they could drive to. .

12. ...

13. In Wisconson, a TV crew catches Democrats bribing homeless people with cigarettes to go fill outabsentee ballots. .

14. In Hawaii, where voters' two punchcards are suppposed to be fed through the voting machines at thetime of voting, voters in many precincts report that the vting machines are not running, and their ballots arekept by the poll workers who promise to run them through the voting machine "later on". .

15.Elderly Florida caller to C-Span today (8th) said the radio talk shows in Miami area were causing havocwith voters by telling them to vote 100 times. .

16. In Indiana, voters are handed ballots by the poll workers with Democratic choices already highlighted indayglo yellow ink. .

ABC News 11/8/00 Reuters ".....After a wild roller- coaster election-night ride, George W. Bush Wednesdayquietly awaited a recount in Florida, confident he would be declared the next U.S. president in "a matter oftime." ........ The Republican nominee canceled a planned news conference and remained at the governor"smansion in downtown Austin. Aides said Bush and his vice presidential running mate, Dick Cheney, wereexpected to make a statement later Wednesday. "We see nothing that is going to change the race," oneBush campaign official said. We"re confident we will prevail, that it"s just a matter of time." ...... Bush watchedthe bizarre twists unfold with his family at the governor"s mansion. The mood swung there from anxiety toexhilaration as television networks withdrew predictions that Democrat Al Gore had won Florida, put the keystate and its 25 Electoral College votes back in the too-close-to-call column and finally awarded it to Bush,pushing him over the 270 needed to win the presidency. ...... The networks declared Bush the 43rdpresident of the United States, but the Texan had less than an hour to celebrate before the vice presidentcalled him to withdraw his concession and election officials announced a recount in Florida that could takeuntil Thursday. ......"

ABC News 11/8/00 Reuters "....."It sure was a roller coaster," senior Bush adviser Ari Fleischer saidWednesday. ...... "The only thing that remains are the overseas ballots ... those ballots trend Republican,"he added. Likening the election to a baseball game, Fleischer said it was "in extra innings." "We"ll staytuned, he added, "But we"re on top and I think we"re going to be there to stay." ..... Bush, his wife, Laura, hisfather, former President George Bush, and his mother, Barbara Bush, watched the returns on a televisionset in an upstairs living room at the governor"s mansion, while other family, including Jeb Bush, followed theoutcome in the presidential suite at a downtown hotel. Jeb, who is under enormous pressure to deliverFlorida and the presidency to his older brother, joined them late in the evening and then flew home to the

state capital, Tallahassee, Wednesday. .....Fleischer said Bush got some rest early Wednesday morning andthat he had "earned a little bit of sleep" after the thrill of being declared the president-elect, albeit briefly. "Ijust think it"s going to happen again in due order, in short time," Fleischer added. "It is a wonderful momentwhen it does." ....."

Freeper algo! 11/8/00 ".....Wouldn't surprise me. The official Michigan web site is giving it (with Wayne Coyet to be reported) to Bush by several thousand votes. Now, Wayne Co includes Detroit and the WayneCounty web site shows that Detroit is voting about 257K to 14K in favor of Gore but the rest of the county is214K to 175K, with 93% of the votes counted, most of those from within Detroit. ....... That huge spike inDetroit may be explainable by demographics. It might also be explainable by some less than honest handlingof the ballots. Given that things are so close a recount would be, well, prudent. ......"

Freeper Dog Gone 11/8/00 "..... I heard on the local Houston ABC station 10 minutes ago. They reportedBush WON Michigan after all the ballots were counted and a recount had been demanded. ....."

Freeper abner 11/8/00 on House Managers ".....I believe that Rogan is the only one in question. So much forthe "American People" being angry about them impeaching the president. As usual, the media is strangelysilent on this front.

Indiana Dan Burton - 70% 194,771 votes.

Arkansas Asa Hutchinson Unopposed-

Pennsylvania George Gekas- 72% 164,750

Illinois Henry Hyde- 59% 133,137

Utah Chris Cannon- 59% 138,125

Wisconsin James Sensenbrenner- 74% 239,130

Florida Bill McCollum- Did not win (I bet he could have kept his Congressional seat though)

Florida Chris Canady- I don't know if he ran.

Indiana Steve Buyer- 61% 130,258

Tennessee- Ed Bryant- 70% 170,690

Ohio- Steve Chabot-53% 112,449

Georgia- Bob Barr- 54% 122,273

California- James Rogan- Still too close to call! ......"

MSNBC 11/8/00 Freeper bigeasy_70118 "...... Ashcroft is setting an example for Gore. Said he will notchallenge election despite fraud. PMSNBC anchor "class statement" ...." Freeper ambrose adds"...Remember when Livingstone resigned to set an example? Everyone said "how nice", but Clinton didn'tbudge. ..."

YAHOO.NEWS 11/8/00 David Royse AP ".....Florida election officials began a recount of nearly 6 millionvotes Wednesday with the stunningly close presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore inthe balance. ...... Florida's secretary of state said the recount should be finished by the end of the dayThursday. Both national parties were sending teams of lawyers to monitor. ......At last count, Bush led Goreby 1,655 votes in the unofficial Associated Press count with all Florida precincts reporting but an unknownnumber of absentee ballots yet to be counted. Some vote counts had the margin slightly higher or closer......... Election supervisors in the state's 67 counties were ordered to start the recount as soon as possibleWednesday. With the vote difference less than 0.5 percent, an automatic recount was triggered under statelaw. ......In each county, a three-member canvassing board made up of a county judge, the chairman of thecounty commission and the local elections supervisor, recount the votes. The makeup of the canvassingboard is supposed to insulate the process from politics, Roberts said. ....... In Tallahassee, the state capital,the results would be certified by Gov. Jeb Bush, brother of the GOP nominee, Republican Secretary of StateKatherine Harris and Roberts, also a Republican appointee. ...... Representatives of both national partieswere headed to the state. The Gore campaign said former Secretary of State Warren Christopher was incharge of their effort. ........ Florida's attorney general, Democrat Bob Butterworth, was on national televisioncommenting on the situation Wednesday, and the Republicans weren't happy about his involvement. ``My

advice as a lawyer to either side would be I'd be a little hesitant about giving an acceptance speech rightnow,'' said Butterworth, who also was Gore's Florida campaign chairman. ``We don't need the attorneygeneral to tell us how to follow the law,'' Roberts said. He said the job of overseeing elections ``falls solely tothe secretary of state.'' ........ Elections supervisors had sent out 585,000 absentee ballots and 416,000 hadbeen returned by late Monday. Underdetermined is the number of overseas ballots, primarily for militarypersonnel and their families, that have been counted. The state counted about 2,300 overseas ballots in the1996 presidential election. The law allows 10 days to count outstanding overseas ballots as long as they arepostmarked no later than Election Day. ...... Roberts said it was ``technically'' possible the absentee ballotscould change the result of the election, but it would be extremely rare. ......"

ABQ Journal 11/8/00 KarenMoses "...... Bernalillo County withdrew all early and absentee voting results fromits tally early Wednesday morning after discovering a glitch in its data. That means more than 68,000 votesweren't included in the last results released by the county. Television reports and some newspaper storiesrelied on what the county had released earlier. ..... New vote totals for early and absentee voting could affectseveral close races. "They were just not getting good results for the early and absentee results," said CliffAldrich, assistant director of information technology for the county. ....."

Freeper Think free or die 11/8/00 "...... This is so critical. Here in PA I learned that the voter rolls are nolonger purged of inactive voters. In the past, inactive voters were purged every 2 years. Now thanks tochanges with Motor Voter, this no longer takes place. I found a relative registered to vote in PA who movedto another state 7 years ago. There's nothing but honor to stop him from requesting an absentee ballot andvoting in two battleground states. ...."

American Spectator 11/8/00 Byron Yory "...... This morning it appears that what many experts viewed as anextremely remote possibility -- that one presidential candidate might win the popular vote while losing in theElectoral College -- appears well on the way to becoming a reality. In recent days, the scenario has beensomething of a pundits' parlor game, a topic that made for amusing talk around the anchor desk but did notpose the threat of a serious political crisis. In part that was because most members of the commentariatbelieved that such a situation, if it did emerge, would involve vice president Al Gore winning the electoralvote and thus the White House. No problem! But now, as the nation awaits a recount of the Florida vote, itappears the opposite might be true. Gore seems headed to a victory in the popular vote, while Bush seemslikely to win Florida's 25 electoral votes and thus prevail in the Electoral College. As difficult as that would befor Gore to accept, the constitution is clear: the candidate who receives 270 or more electoral votes will bethe next president. ........"

American Spectator 11/8/00 Byron Yory "...... Even before the final results are known, the outlines of aDemocratic plan to undermine a possible Republican victory have already begun to emerge. ....The plan isbased on the popular vote. If Gore does indeed win a greater number of votes nationwide than Bush, Altersuggested, then the vice president would challenge the Florida recount in court -- over and over again, ifnecessary. The Democrats' intent would be to tie the Florida results up in endless litigation, and in theprocess try to convince the public that no recount can be completely accurate, and that the final Floridaresult, should it declare Bush the winner, cannot be trusted. ..... At the same time they make that case,Gore's partisans will point to the popular vote and make the argument that, given the allegedly murky natureof the Florida results, the election should go to the winner of the popular vote. After all, they will argue, he isthe choice of a majority of Americans. That would be the beginning of an intense effort -- aided, no doubt, bythe White House public relations machine -- to create public pressure on Bush to concede victory to Gore.Of course, it's all grossly unconstitutional. ....."

The Associated Press 11/8/00 David Royse ".......Florida officials began recounting nearly 6 million ballotsWednesday to determine the next president, while Democrats and some voters complained of electionirregularities. Partial results showed Al Gore cutting into George W. Bush's lead. ...... The recount in all 67counties was triggered by state law because Republican Bush led Democrat Gore by less than one-half of 1percentage point. State officials said they expect to finish by the end of the day Thursday. ......Floridaelections supervisors also waited for an undetermined number of overseas ballots, primarily from militarypersonnel and their families. The state allows 10 days after the election for the ballots to come in. ......TheFlorida totals, including all absentee ballots received so far, showed Bush with 2,909,135 votes and Gorewith 2,907,351 - a difference of 1,784 in a state with 8.75 million registered voters. After 28 of Florida's 67counties were recounted Wednesday, Gore had gained 351 votes. ........ Pinellas County, which includes St.Petersburg, will have to redo its count because a poll worker inadvertently failed to run an unknown numberof ballots through its computer Wednesday, county Supervisor of Elections Deborah Clark said. The countyretracted its original announcement that Gore had gained 404 votes and Bush dropped by 61 votes in itsrecount. ......."

The Associated Press 11/8/00 David Royse ".......Even before the recount, the Gore campaign was already

eyeing legal options for forcing a new vote in Palm Beach County, where confusion over how to fill out theballot may have boosted the tally for Pat Buchanan, a senior Gore adviser said, speaking on condition ofanonymity. ...... Jesse Jackson said he got calls on Election Day complaining that blacks had difficulty votingin Florida and other Southern states. He said some voters were told there were no more ballots, or that pollswere closed. ...... Separately, Democratic officials and voters complained about the way ballots in PalmBeach County were arranged. Voters punched holes in the middle of the ballot, while candidates werealternately listed to the left and then the right. County officials also said more than 19,000 ballots in thepresidential race were tossed out because more than one candidate was picked. ...... Jeb Bush said he hasseen nothing that indicates fraud, and pledged a fair recount. ``Voter fraud in our state is a felony, and guiltyparties will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law,'' he said......"

CBSNEWS 11/8/00 "......On an extraordinary evening, the Democrats captured four Republican Senateseats, but the GOP will nevertheless retain control of the upper chamber. One Senate race remainsundecided - Democrat Maria Cantwell's challenge to GOP incumbent Slade Gorton in Washington state. IfCantwell loses, Republicans control 51 of the 100 seats in the Senate. But if she wins, the upper chamberwill be evenly split. In this scenario, the Republicans would control the Senate anyway. That's because in theevent of a Bush victory, Vice President Dick Cheney would cast the tie-breaking vote ..."

Ramesh Ponnuru, NR senior editor 11/8/00 ".....Gore said that while he had won the popular vote, he wouldof course respect the constitutional process of the electoral college. For this "concession" he is beingpraised on the airwaves as I write. But whether to abide by the electoral college has never been the seriousquestion. The serious question is how the electoral college should vote: With the national majority, or bystate. And Gore is not disavowing a campaign to get electors to vote against their states and with thenational popular majority. In fact, the only point to Gore's having mentioned his apparent popular majoritywas to lay the groundwork for just such a campaign. .......He's going to have a strong case. The Constitutiondoesn't clearly say that the electors have to vote with their states' plurality. Can George W. Bush, who hastalked all along about "trusting the people," really challenge him? What Gore cannot get away with politically,I think, is to try to win this battle in court; if he tries, there will be a backlash. But the electoral-collegecampaign is going to be very difficult. Republicans are going to have to think quickly and hard about severalquestions. ......"

UPI 11/8/00 Mark Kukis ".....Democratic lawyers and officials from Vice President Al Gore's campaign aregathering evidence for a possible legal challenge to the pending Florida vote count, a move that could landthe presidential election in a legal battle likely to end up in the Supreme Court....... Internal documents fromthe Democratic National Committee show a legal strategy revolving around three instances of reportedabnormalities at Florida ballot boxes on Tuesday......... Another argument centers on Florida Highway Patrolcheckpoints in Woodville, a town in northern Florida, where state troopers allegedly intimidated minoritiesheaded to the polling station at a church. Federal and state law enforcement officials are investigatingcomplaints that four troopers set up the checkpoint without following normal Florida Highway Patrolprocedures and stopped motorists, issuing citations for traffic violations. Democratic officials say allegedharassment by troopers at the checkpoint may have affected more than 1,000 minority votes at the nearbypolling station......Additionally, Democrats cite reports of missing ballot boxes in Florida's Broward County, aheavily Democratic area where 68 percent of voters cast ballots for Gore. Democratic officials do not havean estimate for the number of allegedly missing ballots, but say any losses in the large Democrat turnoutwould disproportionately count against Gore in the statewide race by a "significant margin." Election officialshave denied losing any ballots......."

UPI 11/8/00 Mark Kukis ".....Heather Gerrken, an election law expert at Harvard, said the evidence gatheredso far by Democrats could form the basis of a lawsuit similar to many cases in which election results arechallenged in state and local courts........ Gerrken said a likely scenario would involve the state DemocraticParty bringing a case against Harris, Florida's top election official. In such a case, Gerrken said, a state courtcould choose to cancel all questionable ballots, call for another statewide vote or simply declare eithercandidate a winner based on the evidence....... However, Gerrken said, such cases are often difficult, andcourts are loath to become involved in election politics...... "It's always hard to win," Gerrken said. "Courts arereluctant to interfere with the democratic process."......"

Fox News 11/8/00 John Martin "......With 27 of 67 Florida counties completing their recounts, Al Gore has cutinto George W. Bush's lead by 198 votes late Wednesday, reducing the margin to just over 1,500 votes inthe crucial state tally that will determine the nation's 43rd president. Meanwhile in heavily Democratic PalmBeach County, where there have been accusations that the presidential portion of the ballot was confusing,officials announced 19,120 ballots in the presidential race were nullified because more than one candidatewas picked. Only 3,783 voters made that mistake on the U.S Senate portion of the ballot. ....."

Msnbc 11/8/00 "......Al Gore set aside the stoic valedictory written for him by an aide and picked up the

phone. George W. Bush did not take his call happily. "You don't have to get snippy about this," Gore spat.THE ACID of their yearlong fight - character assaults and name calling, layered onto the Clinton-Gore defeatof Bush's father in 1992 - boiled over as Gore, in an underground office at the War Memorial, insisted thatFlorida's decisive 25 electoral votes remained in limbo. "Let me make sure I understand," protested Bush, hisvictory speech in hand. "You're calling me back to retract your concession?" Florida Gov. Jeb Bush,chastened on Election Night when it appeared Bush had lost the state, had just assured his brother it was adone deal. And the TV networks had already declared Texas Gov. George W. Bush the 43rd president ofthe United States. "Let me explain something," Gore lectured in a stony tone, "your younger brother is notthe ultimate authority on this."....."

Voter.com 11/8/00 Ann Coulter "..... Vice President Al Gore has not only lost the presidency but, by insistingon a recount, he has ended his political career. Recounts never change the outcome, and always make thechallenger seem like a sore loser. See eg, Bob Dornan (R-CA), Michael Huffington (R-CA), Ellen Sauerbrey(R-MD), and Louis (Woody) Jenkins (R-LA). And all those disputes involved not only close elections butallegations of voter fraud. ...... Gore is just being a sore loser. (That's certainly what the media said about allthose Republicans who contest their own narrow defeats, anyway.) ........ Even with the Democrats trolling forvotes this year among prisoners -- or the "Democratic base" -- absentee ballots always favor Republicans.One reason for this is that a substantial portion of absentee ballots come from our patriotic fighting menabroad. Another is, absentee ballots favor those who are capable of reading. ....."

The Telegraph (U.K.) 11/9/00 Mark Steyn "..... WELL, here's another first. Al Gore is the first presidentialcandidate to rescind his concession. He now refuses to concede that he ever conceded. It all depends whatthe definition of the word "loser" is. The Vice-President was on his way to give his thank-you-and-goodnightspeech when he got a call on his cellphone: great news! In the grand tradition of the Clinton-Gore era, they'dfound a loophole!. ..."

UPI 11/8/00 Michael Kirkland ".....The Justice Department told United Press International Wednesdayevening it will review Democratic allegations of missing ballot boxes in Florida....... The major presidentialcandidates are waiting on an ongoing recount of Tuesday's votes in Florida to determine the presidency,and depending on how the recount goes, either Texas Gov. George W. Bush or Vice President Al Gore willgarner more than the 270 votes in the Electoral College necessary to be elected, unless court challengesslow down the process......... Democrats have charged that numerous irregularities in Florida voting costGore thousands of votes. Bush held less than an 1,800 vote-lead on the first count........ "

APB News breaking 11/8/00 Rick Sarlat ".....As the world awaits a recount in Florida to learn the outcome ofthe presidential election, some black voters here are charging that they were deliberately harassed by statetroopers who set up a roadblock near a polling station. At the urging of several black motorists, the StateAttorney General's Office today is looking into whether the Florida Highway Patrol deliberately set up acheckpoint just one mile from Woodville First Baptist Church. The church is the polling place for a precinctwhere more than one-third of the voters are black, said Assistant State Attorney General Paul Hancock. ......"This was not done in accordance with normal [highway patrol] procedure," Hancock said. "We certainly seethe sensitivity of the black community in this situation. That's why we jumped right on it." .....Of the 13 driverscited at the checkpoint for equipment violations, eight were black and five were white. The roadblock was setup between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said. ......Howes said the sergeant who set up thecheckpoint only chose the location because it had not been used in the past. Police did not release thename of the sergeant and three troopers who operated the roadblock. ....... Howes said the incident is beinginvestigated internally. He said he did not expect the sergeant and troopers to be reprimanded. "They're justout there doing their job," Howes said. "Yes, departmental policy was violated, but the violations were reallyonly administrative oversights." "These driver license and faulty equipment checkpoints have always been anormal part of our overall enforcement strategies," he said. "The sergeant and the troopers were oblivious toany connection between the election and the checkpoint."....."

FOX News 11/8/00 Freeper GunsUp! "...... JUST AIRED: Fox reprots that a relative of Pat Buchanan lives inPalm Beach County. During the 1996 election, Palm Beach posted over 8,000 votes for Pat Buchanan!Therefore it is POSSIBLE that the count of votes for Buchanan is valid!!! ......"

Newsmax 11/8/00 "....... Gore supporters are crying foul because they say that the ballot in Palm BeachCounty, Fla., was confusing and that votes intended for Gore were accidentally made for Pat Buchanan. Atfirst blush these critics might appear to have a legitimate claim. ....... In Palm Beach County, the ReformParty's Buchanan received 3,407 votes - 1 percent of the vote - at the final tally. ..... In neighboring BrowardCounty, which Democrats argue has similar demographics to Palm Beach County, Buchanan pulled just 789votes - close to 0 percent of the vote. ....But NewsMax.com reviewed Board of Elections records for bothcounties. ..... Records show that Palm Beach County is not similiar to Broward County in voter registration.There are far more members of the Independent Party in Palm Beach County than in Broward County.

......According to the Florida supervisor of elections, Broward County has only 189 members of theIndependent Party - Florida's Reform party. ... Palm Beach County, on the other hand, has a whopping14,551 members of the Independent Party. In fact, it has the highest Independent registration in Florida.....Buchanan received 1 percent of the vote in Palm Beach County. In all the counties in Florida where thereis significant Independent Party membership, Buchanan got a similiar 1 percent. ....."

New York Times 11/9/00 David Rosenbaum "....... With the presidency at stake, election supervisors in eachof Florida's 67 counties today began a recount of the nearly 6 million votes for president in Tuesday'selection. But Clay Roberts, the state's director of elections, said he did not anticipate a significant change inthe initial tally that showed Gov. George W. Bush slightly ahead....... Katherine Harris, the secretary of state,said she expected to declare a winner based on the recount by the end of business on Thursday, butDemocrats suggested that they might try to delay a resolution by filing lawsuits........ Of the counties thatreported their recount results to the state government today before the elections office closed for the night,16 showed small changes in their tallies. Added together, the changes gave Mr. Bush 125 more votes andMr. Gore 133, a net gain for Mr. Gore of 8 votes......"

New York Times 11/9/00 David Rosenbaum ".......In DeLand, in central Florida, a county judge sealed theelection headquarters with police tape. In Tampa, Pam Iorio, the Hillsborough County elections supervisor,said that she did not expect big changes but that some were likely because of "hanging shard syndrome,"when the tiny squares voters punch out to select their candidates cling to the ballot so that it does notregister properly.......It was not clear tonight whether absentee ballots could delay the final count. All theballots mailed in the United States are part of the initial count, Mr. Roberts said. But Floridians who liveabroad only need their ballots postmarked by Nov. 7; state law requires they be counted if officials receivethem by Nov. 17......."

New York Times 11/9/00 David Rosenbaum "....... There is no statewide record of how many ballots wererequested by people abroad, how many have already been received and counted or how many might still besubmitted. After the 1996 presidential election, Mr. Roberts said, about 2,300 absentee ballots arrived fromoverseas........Republicans maintained that most such ballots would come from military personnel, who werelikely to vote for Mr. Bush. Democrats said that many in the military were enlistees and members of minoritygroups likely to vote for Mr. Gore. Also, Democrats said, there could be many Floridians who live in Israel,and they would probably vote Democratic. The truth is, no one knows......."

New York Times 11/9/00 David Rosenbaum "....... Mr. Roberts, the election official, did not disagree that theballots were confusing. But, he said, all candidates had a chance to review them, no complaints were raisedbefore they were printed and disadvantaged candidates had no recourse now.......... An expert on electionlaw, Professor Daniel Lowenstein of the University of California at Los Angeles law school, said it was highlyunlikely that the courts would agree to review the case. "I expect courts to take a pretty standoffish view ofthings like this, and I'd be surprised to find a judge who would intervene," he said...... "It's not an inherentlydefective ballot," Mr. Lowenstein added, since no one was asserting that it was anything but poorly designed......"

UPI 11/8/00 Michael Kirkland "......If Democrats believe the Florida election process has been railroaded infavor of Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush, they could take the fight to federal court toprevent the state's electors from voting for him in the Electoral College....... Democrats have not indicatedthat they will pursue that course. But the scenario is not beyond the realm of possibility......... Among thegrounds such a legal challenge could claim is a denial of the right to vote for special Florida residents. Theability to vote is among a limited list of "federally protected rights" under U.S. laws such as the Civil RightsAct and the Voting Rights Act........"

Judicial Watch 11/8/00 "......If George W. Bush wins Florida -- as the pundits expect -- and this captures thePresidency, he will, ironically, owe his victory to Elian Gonzalez. This is because the Miami Cuban-Americancommunity -- which broke almost evenly for Bill Clinton in the prior 2 elections -- voted overwhelmingly forBush based on the acts of the Clinton-Gore Administration in returning Elian Gonzalez to Cuba, and gassing& beating innocent bystanders during the fateful raid of Attorney General Reno's INS agents in Little Havanalast April 22......... Ironically, Governor George W. Bush of Texas and Jeb Bush of Florida did not take actionto try to keep Elian in the United States. However, they were not responsible for the illegal acts of theClinton-Gore Administration in violating the rights of Elian and other American citizens......."

National Review 11/8/00 Rod Thomson "...... Over the sunny horizon, a plague of lawyers is descending onFlorida. They officially are "watching" the presidential recount. But they are also scouring every comma and"whereas" in the Florida code to see if any loophole can be found to invalidate Florida, or to block such anaction. The eyes of the world are riveted on the state now, as the historic recount begins. ...... BrowardCounty Supervisor of Elections Jane Carroll, a Democrat, said she believes that any change in the vote total

due to the recount will be negligible.. ......"

NRO 11/9/00 Jonah Goldberg ".......The Florida recount is half over and Democrats are rejoicing that Al Gorehas cut George Bush's lead in half. But Republicans can take heart from some of the details. Of the 32counties that have been recounted as of 8:00 A.M. Thursday, the Democratic strongholds of Broward, Dade,and Palm Beach are included. In these counties, the Democratic voter registration outweighs the Republicanby 2.4 million to 1.9 million. In the counties remaining, the Republican registered voters outweigh theDemocrats 1.4 to 1.3 million. More importantly, of the 1,189 votes that Al Gore has added to his total, three-quarters, or 751, came from Palm Beach County alone, where 19,000 votes were thrown out because votershad chosen more than one candidate (Pat Buchanan, continuing his role as spoiler, announced this morningthat he believes most of these ballots belong to Gore). Indeed, the disproportionate surge for Gore in PalmBeach raises the specter for those close to the scene that the Palm Beach recount was flawed in Gore'sfavor. ...... The bottom line: It looks increasingly unlikely that Al Gore can close the gap from the ballotsremaining for recounting. However with 19,000 votes discarded from Palm Beach and a statistically oddsurge for Gore in that county's recount, it seems assured that no matter who wins the recount, we will behearing a lot more about Palm Beach in the days to come. ......"

KSDK Channel 5 in St.Louis 11/9/00 Freeper A Citizen Reporter "...... Senator Bond is saying that there wasa scheme to unfairly get votes in a predominantly Democratic area. He said it was planned in advance.Writing a letter to Freeh asking the FBI to investigate the criminal activities. In the St. L Post Dispatch the dayof the election there was a story that there would be irregularities and that the polls would need to remainopen. He said this is prima facia evidence that there was a pre-planned scheme. He calls it a "major criminalenterprise." ....."

Pensacola News Journal 11/9/00 Scott Streater "...... A fraudulent absentee ballot in Pensacola has sparkeda criminal probe into potentially widespread voter fraud that could further muddy a presidential electionwhose outcome hinges on several thousand votes in Florida. ..... The State Attorney's Office is leading aninvestigation into whether the forged ballot is part of a much broader scheme to redirect mailed ballots tosomeone who filled them out and forged the voter's signature. .....``I agree there may well be more than justthis one,'' said Assistant State Attorney Russ Edgar, who is heading the investigation. ``That's what I'mthinking right now.'' ....... Late Wednesday, Escambia County elections officials discovered what appears tobe a second forged absentee ballot that also has been handed over to state prosecutors. ...... The stateinvestigation was prompted by a complaint from Todd Vinson, a law clerk in Miami who is a registeredPensacola voter. Vinson, state investigators and others involved outline this series of events: ...... On Oct.10, Vinson requested the Escambia County Supervisor of Elections to mail an absentee ballot to his Miamiapartment. After it failed to arrive, he requested a second ballot on Oct. 24. ..... It, too, disappeared. Vinson,28, said he complained to his father, U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson, last Thursday. That morning, theelder Vinson called Jones. ..... Jones' office reviewed all the absentee ballots and discovered a ballot withTodd Vinson's name on it. When Jones compared the signature on the ballot to the signature on Vinson'svoter registration card, the two did not match. ... Jones faxed a copy of the signature to Todd Vinson. ``It wasclearly forged,'' he said. ``Somebody definitely got hold of it and sent it back in. The question is where didthey get it, and my speculation was that it happened somewhere in the post office. It made it down here toMiami, but it never made it to me.'' ...... Jones sent a third ballot to Vinson via next-day mail that arrived intime for Vinson to cast a ballot for Bush. Jones then contacted the State Attorney's Office, U.S. Attorney MikePatterson and the Florida Division of Elections. Edgar said the signed witness required for all absenteeballots listed a fictitious address. ... State Attorney Curtis Golden said that if the Postal Service was involved,his office might turn the investigation over to federal law enforcement officials. ......"

CNSNews.com 11/9/00 Scott Hogenson "...... A few people in Palm Beach County, Florida, are so upset withthe ballots they were handed on Election Day they're filing a lawsuit over it. The crux of their argument: theywere confused and may have inadvertently voted for someone they didn't want to....... We've already heardmore than a few dark insinuations of a "constitutional crisis" in the wake of the November 7 elections, whatwith the prospect of George W. Bush winning an Electoral College victory while losing the popular vote to AlGore. These pronouncements are pure tripe. Article II of the Constitution is clear about the authority of theElectoral College in determining the chief executive, regardless of the popular vote......... But this Floridalawsuit has the potential to create a genuine constitutional crisis in the event it is given any credence at allby any court, for it holds the potential of creating a precedent by which any electoral result can bechallenged because of self-proclaimed ignorance by a plaintiff. It is not merely a slippery slope; it is a sheerprecipice......"

St. Louis Post Dispatch 11/8/00 Mark Schlinkmann "...... Missouri state election officials said today that theyhad received no complaints about punchcard voting problems similar to the one that has spurredcontroversy - and possibly contributed to the delay in knowing who won the presidency - in Florida. ......Betsy Byers, deputy secretary of state, said 43 of Missouri's 116 election jurisdictions use punchcard ballots,

in which voters punch holes next to candidates' names. ...... St. Louis and St. Louis County, and St. Charles,Jefferson, Franklin and Warren counties all use the punchcard system, she said. It's up to each county clerkor election board to decide how to lay out the ballot. ......."

The Hugh Hewitt Show/KIEV Los Angeles 11/9/00 Freeper truthkeeper "..... Conservative talk show hostHugh Hewitt (a lawyer who used to teach Constitutional Law) is on the air right now asking callers who wereaffected by the network's fraud (the Florida and Pennsylvania "early calls") to contact him regardingaffidavits. He wants to hear from people who were discouraged not to vote, or who have personal knowledgeof other people being discouraged not to vote, as a direct result of the calling of Florida and Pennsylvaniafor Gore by the networks. He also is asking for the Republican volunteer callers, who were devastated andstopped making their phone calls to potential voters. He contends Bush would have garnered millions ofadditional popular votes had this call not been made. ......... He said if the Democrats pursue this crazyargument of the "Palm Beach confusion," and proceed with litigation, we need to be prepared to counter. Heneeds people brave and patriotic enough to be willing to TESTIFY IN COURT! He says bring it on, baby. ......:

Today Show Freeper smart_monkey2 "..... Tom Brokaw stated on the Today show that GWB should notdeclare victory even if he wins the recount. Brokaw stated that the other issues, (which will have no merit incourt),must be considered and intimated that assuming victory would not be legitimate. Brokaw went on tosay that legitimacy is important for foreign affairs. If Bush maintains his lead, the media is setting Bush up bygiving the democrats false charges credence by giving them air time. I really do not believe in blackhelicopters, but I really think that forces are at work to steal this election. I cannot express the vitreol disgustthat is building inside me. Who else has heard the same from other talking heads? ....." Freeper Starfanadds "..... Let Brokaw listen to Torricelli (who finally said something I agree with) and put the nation first.There are two time zones in Florida. Those hearing albore won left the lines and I'm sure that affected theoutcome all across the country. Brokaw said they not only have egg on their faces, but omelets. He's right --they affected this election! Now take responsibility for your actions Tom and shut up. ......"

Miami Herald 11/9/00 Carol Marbin Miller "...... Tuesday morning, Virgie Hawkins went to vote at Blanche ElyHigh School, where's she's voted for years. But when she arrived at the Pompano Beach campus, she wassurprised to learn the polling place had been moved, and no instructions were left on where to go, Hawkinssaid Wednesday. Hawkins drove to two nearby elementaries and a youth club, hoping to cast her ballot butlate in the afternoon, she just stopped trying. ``I said, hey, I give up,'' said Hawkins, 42, of Pompano Beach.``I tried.'' ...... Hawkins is among hundreds of Broward voters who say they were disenfranchised Tuesday byproblems at polling places. In Hawkins' precinct, for example, voter turnout was unusually low -- 46.2 percentcompared to 66.2 percent elsewhere in Broward County, records show. ....... Supervisor of Elections JaneCarroll said she was ``more than satisfied -- extremely happy'' with the course of the election in BrowardCounty. ``We didn't have any precincts with zero votes, so people knew where to go,'' she said. ``As far asnot being mailed new information for switching, that isn't true. Some people don't always pay close attentionto their mail. That's par for the course.'' ....."

NewsMax.com 11/9/00 "......Defense Secretary William Cohen predicted the military vote will have a strongimpact on whether Florida's electoral votes - and thus the presidency - go to Republican George W. Bush orDemocrat Al Gore. "I think there obviously will be a role for the military personnel who have retired in Floridaand who also are registered to vote there," he said. ...... "I think it's too early for me to reach any judgment interms of the proportionalities, how they are going to vote, but they certainly will have an impact in a race thatclose in that state." Cohen, a former Republican senator, is in the unusual position of serving in the cabinetof a Democrat administration. ......The military is largely presumed to be heavily Republican, with someestimates counting as many as 80 percent of the 1.2 million active-duty personnel. Military officers at thePentagon say this sounds like a reasonable proportion because service members tend to be socially andfiscally conservative......"

New YorkTimes 11/9/00 Jim Yardley Michael Cooper ".....Ever a creature of habit, Gov. George W. Bushwoke up this morning and did what he always does. He went downstairs at the governor's mansion, fed histwo cats and his dog and made coffee for his wife, Laura...... But that was the only thing routine on this rawmorning. When he walked out of the mansion for a brief news conference before lunch, Mr. Bush looked verytired. He had slept only three and a half hours, perhaps not surprising for a man who thought he had beenelected president of the United States only to see the outcome thrown in doubt by the uncertain results inFlorida. Today, Mr. Bush found himself in limbo. His parents, former President George and Barbara Bush,who had come for an election-night family dinner and had hugged him when victory seemed assured, hadreturned home to Houston. His brother, Jeb, the Florida governor, flew back to his home state to facequestions about the recount. And Mr. Bush had even called upon James A. Baker III - his father's formerconfidant and a secretary of state with whom the younger Mr. Bush had once had a famous falling-out - to flyto Florida on his behalf......."

Freeper feymains 11/8/00 "....... Karl Rove said because of the early call of Florida Bush may have lost over100,000 votes in that state alone. Look at the Vote in Oregon. Bush is winning that state. They mailed theballots in over a week ago. Rush Limbaugh said he expected a higher turnout and I think they were thereready to vote . But when the Mid West and the west heard Bush was going to lose Florida he may have lost aton of votes. This stinks to high heaven.Look at the battleground vote. They have a good track record. Ihave talked to alot of people and they said this stinks to high heaven. ......" Freeper uvular adds "....It suredoes smell. Recall the station in Wisconsin that reported the trading of cigarettes for votes; they basicallytripped over the story, while filming something else. How many other tricks such as this one occurred that wehave not heard about yet? I believe the polls were fairly accurate, but failed to acknowledge the potential forthe dems to pull out all the stops this time, so in fear of losing their power. ......."

Freeper GOPRealist 11/9/00 "...... I'd say the most damaging effect occurred in the Republican stronghold ofthe Florida Panhandle. As soon as those Bush voters came home and saw all the major networks declareGore the winner of Florida, they were instantly demoralized because the polls were still opened and theyhadn't voted yet: Why vote for Bush in Florida when all the major networks are declaring that Gore hasalready won all 25 of Florida's electoral votes? ...... The liberal network news pollsters didn't need to formallyconspire with the Gore campaign. All they did was act independently -- they immediately declared Florida forGore, knowing it would tilt the election to Gore. How did they know it would tilt the election to Gore? Becausethey're doing the polling! They knew where the Republican and Democratic regions of Florida are. And theyknew that the Florida Panhandle is a Republican stronghold. ........And as usual, the liberal Brian Williamsalmost laughed off the Liberal Media's Pro-Gore premature announcement that Gore won Florida. Williams,I'm sure, thought to himself, hey, wow, we got away with that premature announcement for over an hour.Hopefully, that should be enough to give Gore Florida and therefore the Presidency. That's why he wassmiling when they retracted their "Gore wins Florida" projection. ....... The Gore DemocRATS haveperformed every possible trick in their lying political strategy handbooks -- except one. Now, they're trying torig the recount. Missing voter ballot boxes stuffed with Gore votes, trying to scam 6,000 Buchanan votes into6,000 Gore votes. ......"

Judicial Watch 11/8/00 "...... Based on discussions with an Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)source, Judicial Watch said today that the Florida District of the INS has engaged in a systematic program ofrushing aliens through the naturalization process to meet INS headquarters "goals" by October 1, 1999 andOctober 1, 2000. In Florida, a new citizen can register to vote up to October 10th......... An INS source toldJudicial Watch that the program is nearly identical to the now infamous 1996 "Citizenship USA" program,wherein thousands of aliens - some with criminal backgrounds - were improperly and illegally rushed throughthe naturalization process in order to obtain Democratic votes for the presidential election. The Florida INSeffort has been termed the "Backlog Reduction Program," - a neutral, bureaucratic-sounding title designedto lower the program's visibility with the media and the general public. INS examiners and clerks who met orexceeded headquarters goals and quotas for the program were rewarded with various types of bonuses,including an extra 40 hours of paid time off....."

NewsMax.com 11/8/00 Carl Limbacher "...... Al Gore served Tennessee as both a congressman and later asa U.S. senator. Like many Democrats in the South, he voted conservative to win. Al had learned the lessonof his dad, Gore Sr., who became too liberal for his home state after spending too long in Washington.Clinton had also been a conservative as governor of Arkansas. Both Clinton and Gore, while serving in theirhome states, held anti-gun control views and were anti-abortion. ...... As soon as Clinton and Gore becameuntethered from their home states in 1992, the pair became very left-wing, very anti-gun and very pro-choice. Arkansans accepted that behavior from Clinton, but Tennesseans didn't like to be lied to. Gorethought he had the state in his back pocket. ......"

WorldNetDaily 11/4/00 Jon Dougherty "...... Members of the military who are currently stationed overseashave complained that the Pentagon has not yet sent out absentee ballots this year, meaning they will not getto vote for a new commander in chief on Tuesday. Specifically, members of U.S. Navy units who arestationed overseas and aboard the USS Cole -- the destroyer recently attacked by terrorists while it wasundergoing refueling in the port of Aden, Yemen -- have either not received ballots or won't get them in timebecause of current deployment circumstances, Pentagon officials said yesterday. ...... "I've heard about thiswithin the past week," said Lt. Dave Gay, a Defense Department spokesman. "We are trying to get moreinformation. We don't know if they were delayed through the mail." ...... He added that due to currentdeployment considerations, some military members overseas likely would not get their ballots in time. ..."

Joy Browne Radio Show 11/8/00 Freeper aspiring.hillbilly "...... Calllers to the Joy Brown radio talk show havereported that Florida voters, appromamately 1 in 20 in certian districts, reported that they were denied theright to vote when they showed up at the poles yesturday. The scheme was that Gore operatives took outabsentee ballots prior to the election in the names of unsuspecting voters. These were marked andpreviously submitted so that the computer lists denied the victims an in person vote yesturday. If the victim of

this scheme didn't show at the poles, the fraud would be undetected. Several callers including one electionworker reported this..... ......:

Newsmax.com 11/8/00 Jack Thompson "...... A reliable source within the Gore camp informs NewsMax thatlawyers this very minute, retained by the Gore-Lieberman 2000 campaign, are feverishly putting the finishingtouches on a lawsuit that will seek, by various means, to overturn the imminent victory by George W. Bush inFlorida. ...... The suit is expected to be filed within the next twenty-four hours and will apparently be a requestby the Gore forces to get state officials in Florida to de-certify, or declare invalid, the election. .....No furtherdetails can be revealed at this time, but clearly Gore is going to try to attempt to secure in a court room whathe appears to be unable to do at the ballot box. ......"

U.S. Newswire 11/9/00 ".....American church leaders from Catholic, Evangelical, Orthodox and Protestanttraditions will today call on Vice President Al Gore and his campaign to act on virtue and courteously bow tothe Constitution, end the rancor of the presidential campaign and acknowledge that George Bush is thepresident elect. "What the Gore people are doing is not good for the country, nor is it good for civility," saidthe Rev. Rob Schenck, president of the National Clergy Council. ......"It is extremely important for the well-being of the nation -- indeed for the world -- that Mr. Gore politely and peacefully transfer power. The morethis is prolonged, the more unsettled we are as a nation, and the more dangerous things can becomearound the world." ......"

AP via ABCNews.com Politics Wire 11/8/00 "......Though the presidential cliffhanger is providing the countrywith a stunning political drama, recounts and contested elections are standard fare in a country with morethan half a million elected officials. But they usually don't reverse the initial declared result, experts saidWednesday. ...... One former politician who went through two such ordeals - losing one and winning thesecond - said he feels nothing but empathy for both Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush andhis Democratic opponent, Vice President Al Gore. "Every hearsay thing gets legs, you worry about it, andpeople keep calling you saying, 'Have you looked down here?'" said former New Jersey GOP Gov. ThomasKean, now president of Drew University in Madison, N.J. "It's awful to get through." ....... Despite a recount,Kean said he lost his 1974 bid for the GOP nomination for a House seat from New Jersey by 72 votes out of30,000 cast. In 1981, after being declared winner of the New Jersey gubernatorial election by 1,677 votesout of 2.3 million total ballots, he had to endure a recount demanded by his opponent, Democratic Rep.James Florio. Six weeks later, Kean's final margin was 1,797 votes - an outcome that professionals in thefield say is typical. ......."

CNN 11/8/00 Freeper Styria "..... Compiled from CNN's results page. Control of the House of Representativesby State:

Republican:

1. Alabama

2. Alaska

3. Arizona

4. Colorado

5. Delaware

6. Florida

7. Georgia

8. Idaho

9. Indiana

10. Iowa

11. Kansas

12. Kentuky

13. Louisiana

14. Missouri

15. Montana

16. Nebraska

17. New Hampshire

18. New Mexico

19. North Carolina

20. Ohio

21. Oklahoma

22. Pennsylvania

23. South Carolina

24. South Dakota

25. Tennessee

26. Utah

27. Virginia

28. Wyoming ......

Independent:

1. Vermont

Tied:

1. Connecticut

2. Illinois

3. Maryland

4. New Jersey

5. Nevada ......,"

Miami Herald Online 11/8/00 Carol Marbin Miller "...... Broward's election follies made the national spotlightearly this morning. With the presidential race still hanging in the balance and Florida playing a pivotal role inthe outcome, NBC News with Tom Brokaw broadcast a report from Broward County on nine missing ballotboxes. That provoked an indignant response from Jane Carroll, Broward's election supervisor. Nothing wasmissing, Carroll said. Rather, there were 14 boxes of ballots from the Pembroke Pines area that took longerto relay because of heavy turnout. ``They're big precincts,'' she said. ...... There was one ballot box that wasmistakenly left sitting at a Pompano Beach polling place, she said, but it had been fetched and was beingdelivered. ...... ``We have no missing ballots,'' she said. ``Tom Brokaw isn't here. I am here, looking at theballots. We have no ballots missing.'' ...... Officials with both the Republican and Democratic parties reportedscores -- perhaps thousands -- of people turned away from the polls. ...... Carroll said she had checked outevery single complaint about voters not being allowed to vote and had found that there was an explanationfor every problem. ``I think everybody is a little paranoid,'' Carroll said. .... Many voters didn't register in timeto meet the state-mandated deadline for this election, while others moved from another county and forgot tochange their voter registration, Carroll said. Another problem is voters who get out of jury duty by sayingthey no longer live in Broward County. They are automatically deleted from the voter rolls. Those peoplethen show up to vote, Carroll said. ....."

UPI 11/8/00 Paul Singer "......Rev. Jesse Jackson Wednesday called for a thorough investigation of thevoting process in Florida and suggested black leaders may initiate legal action to challenge "patterns ofirregularities" that appeared to interfere with a full accounting of African-American voters. Jackson was on hisway to Florida to meet African-American leaders to consider their legal options. He said a legal challengemay be necessary. Jackson told reporters outside the Loews Hotel where he and the rest of Vice President

Gore's party is staying that black leaders are demanding a recount by hand, not by machine, and a thoroughinvestigation into reported "acts of irregularity and/or intimidation." ......."

AP 11/8/00 Mike Feinsilber "...... Texas Gov. George W. Bush claimed cautious victory Wednesday in theunresolved presidential race. The outcome of his race with Democrat Al Gore hung on Florida and theuncertain fate of its 25 electoral votes. "This morning brings news from Florida that the final vote countshows that Secretary Cheney and I have carried the state of Florida,'' Bush told reporters in a middayappearance. "If that result is confirmed in an automatic recount, as we expect it to be, then we have won theelection.'' ...... "

Freeper the crow 11/8/00 "....Many reports of voter fraud here in Milwaukee.

1. the rich b!tch from NY passing out smokes to the homeless last week.

2. I know of people getting limosine rides to go to the polls.

3. Multiple reports from all over town of no ID required for on site same day registration [as WI allows].Apparently students from UW Milwaukee and Marquette U. were going all over town and voting many times.When I heard of long registration lines which stayed long all day, I knew we were in trouble. ..."

CNN.com 11/8/00 Matt Smith Thom Patterson "......It is also possible that one candidate could win theElectoral College vote and the other win the popular vote, which hasn't happened in a hundred years.Nationwide, Gore pulled ahead by 267,557 votes of more than 95 million cast, with all but 3 percent ofprecincts reporting. ...... Without a decision in Florida -- which commands 25 electoral votes -- Gore led theprojected tally in the Electoral College by 14 votes, 260 to 246. The only other state yet to have a projectedwinner is Oregon, which holds seven electoral votes. A candidate needs 270 electoral votes to win thepresidency. ....... But at the urging of his Florida campaign staff, the vice president retracted his concession.Gore campaign chief Bill Daley told supporters standing in the rain in Nashville that with a recount pending,"our campaign continues." ......"Without being certain of the results in Florida, we simply cannot be certain ofthe results of the national election," Daley said....."

Doctor Raoul 11/8/00 "...... On Philadelphia's Channel 10 news, the weather guy, "Hurricane" Schwartz, justshowed his Absentee ballot mailed to him by the Palm Beach election board. He only lived there for 6months, 5 years ago! He didn't get one in the interveining years, but he got one the year Bill Clinton'saccomplice was running. ....." Freeper snopercod "....Everyone who has ever lived in Florida is still on therolls down there. I could have voted there as well as in NC, since I lived in FL two years ago, but that wouldhave been dishonest. They should do like many other states and delete you from the rolls if you don't vote inone election. ...."

Newsmax.com 11/8/00 Carl Limbacher "...... If George W. Bush wins the White House based on an ElectoralCollege victory without winning the popular vote, don't expect the media to play by the rules. EarlyWednesday morning, just minutes after his network called the election for Bush, CNN's Jeff Greenfieldnoticed that the president elect's lead in the popular vote had begun to dwindle. ........ Then, just after 7a.m.eastern time, when it was clear Gore had indeed opened up a razor-thin popular vote lead, NBC's TimRussert suggested the development would mean Gore would remain a Washington player. ......Even if Bushhad indeed captured the White House, Russert advised anchorman Tom Brokaw, Gore would become the"shadow president." ....."

Freeper Russ 11/8/00 "..... Nixon lost the election to Kennedy by about 100,000 votes due to massive voterfraud in Chicago. Had Nixon challenged those votes and demanded a recount Kennedy stood a goodchance of not being President. Nixon didn't send in 175 lawyers, have media talking heads crying about it.He took it like a man for the good of the country. You can never accuse Gore of doing anything for the goodof the country, only the party and his own power. ..."

Freeper My Favorite Headache "..... Here is the latest. I have yet to comment on last night's dispicableshowing in Florida. I along with thousands have worked our butts off for the last year and getting the vote outfor W. in Florida. For those who stayed home...CONGRATULATIONS..You might have just given this electionto Gore. For those who voted for Pat or Ralph...Congratulations you just gave this to Gore. ......I have beenon the phone with CNN producers this morning and am expecting a call back anytime now as they are veryinterested on the obvious garbage that is going on in Palm Beach county with Jesse Jackson and RobertWexler. These sample ballots have been out for 5 or 6 weeks. There has been plenty of time for everyone tolook at them. There was assistance at the polls for everyone if confused. The early call for Gore threw off theelection for Bush in a Republican strong hold in the Panhandle. They had another 45 minutes to go andmost walked away or stayed at home thinking it didn't matter anymore. ..... Still waiting to get on air for CNN(holding breath..yeah right). My call into FOXNEWS is coming next. ..."

Freeper Big Ezy "...... If you get to talk to CNN tell them the ballot in question was designed by a Democratwho signed off on it approval.

They have no leg to stand on.

Also last night an ABC employee who was thier number cruncher told Peter Jennings that she had worked forthe Florida Sec. Of State working on recounts.

She said that "recounts rarely change the difference very much one way or the other. Maybe 10% of thedifference between the two candidates." So if Bush has a lead of 1700 votes he could lose 170 or gain 170about 10% give or take a few.

Also she said "that the military absentee vote is always in favor of the Republican", I think she mentionedConnie Mack.

Jennings said how can you be so sure? "She replied because of 25 years of doing the same job in Florida".She told Jennings "she would rather be ahead in a recount especially a Republican knowing the only thingout are the military absentees." ..."

FrontPageMagazine 11/9/00 Michael Long ".....GORE WINS the popular vote. Bush wins the electoral vote.That's what's likely. And now Gore will spend the rest of that DNC soft money of his in the campaign of his lifeto subvert the Electoral College. You didn't think he was just going to take this lying down, did you? ...... TheDemocrats are about to launch their biggest, dirtiest campaign in modern history. This is the one that you'lltell your grandkids about........ As early as this weekend, expect Al Gore to launch a massive mediacampaign -- commercials, interviews, whisper campaigns, maybe even a repeat of the kind of travel he'sdone personally for the last year. And the message will be this: I am Al Gore, and I won the popular vote forthe presidency of the United States. The electors in your state have an obligation to enforce the will of thepeople. Contact your electors and tell them that you want them to vote in the Electoral College for Al Gore,the popularly elected president of the United States. Expect the focus to be twofold. First, Gore will focus onthe states where electors are not bound by statute to vote for the candidate on whose behalf they wereelected. Second, and most important, Gore will take his case directly to the people. He will say that their willis being subverted, that they elected him properly and honestly and by a majority, and that the Republicansare about to take away even their right to say who leads them. It will be powerful, and it might just besuccessful. The media will support Gore's effort, and the usual crowd of subservient, liberal academics will,too. They'll sign full-page ads in the Washington Post and the New York Times, saying that the will of thepeople is about to be tossed away by an anachronistic system over two centuries old. Look for a couple ofex-presidents (you know who you are, gentlemen) to turn the pressure on with public statements and Goresupport for his dirty little campaign......"

Caselaw - Apellate Court of Florida 11/9/00 Freeper visagoth ".... Jeanne Khoyi NELSON, as Supervisor ofElections in Pinellas County, et al., Appellants, v. A. S. Jim ROBINSON et al., Appellees ......

No. 74-1201 Court of Appeals of Florida, Second District 301 So. 2d 508; 1974 Fla. App. LEXIS 8601

October 15, 1974 ...... JUDGES: McNulty, Chief Judge. Hobson and Grimes, JJ., concur. ....OPINIONBY:McNULTY ...... In our view the trial court misconstrued the law as to the test to be applied. It is not sufficientthat a showing is made of a mere "reasonable possibility that the results of an election could have beenchanged by irregularities; rather, there must be a showing of a reasonable probability that the results of saidelection would have been changed except for such irregularities. That error of itself would require a reversalhereof. But further than that, in this case, we can say also that even if the trial court had applied the correcttest herein the facts as he found them would, as a matter of law, be insufficient to meet it. Forty-eightassorted voters, poll workers and clerks, thirty-one of them called by plaintiffs/appellees, testified. Yet nofinding was made that even a single voter was prevented from exercising this free choice although,concededly, it was found that several voters were "confused." But mere confusion does not amount to animpediment to the voters' free choice if reasonable time and study will sort it out; and no denial is made that,ultimately, all but one of the "confused" voters who testified were able with reasonable [**8] time and effort tofind their choices, some of which choices included one or more of the appellees. Parenthetically, it should benoted too that ample notice was given that aid and assistance was available at each polling place to help avoter should he need it. No finding was made, nor was there any basis for one, that an unusual or inordinatenumber of voters sought such assistance. ......Expressly, the only other evidence upon which the trial courtrelied was his own observation of the voting machine. He concluded from that, as noted, that the ballot was"confusing and prejudicial," which is a far cry from satisfying the proper test of invalidity we set out above.Moreover, in the presence of counsel for the parties we have examined the same machine, which forms apart of this record, and can say as a matter of law that nothing can be found therein which of itself would

support the conclusion that a prudent, observant and conscientious voter was prevented from making hisrightful choice......".

National Review Online "..... On March 12, 1996, Pat Buchanan won 8,788 votes in the Republican primaryfrom the four congressional districts that share Palm Beach County. In Rep. Wexler's 19th congressionaldistrict, Buchanan won his largest vote of the four - 2,961. ...... Buchanan's top strategist in the 1996nomination race, Human Events editor Terry Jeffrey, explains that by the time of the 1996 Florida primary,the fight was essentially over. Buchanan had lost South Carolina on March 2, and five other primaries,including Georgia's on March 5. Still, with the nomination lost, and Buchanan not campaigning in Palm Beach(he made only a brief appearance in Miami on March 6), over 8,000 diehard Buchanan Brigaders voted insupport of his message. .......Jeffrey says that it is "completely believable to me" that there were 3,000Buchanan supporters again voting for their man in the Palm Beach area this Tuesday. "Over 8,000 peoplecast a symbolic vote for Pat and his message after he was eliminated from competition in 1996." ......"

Freeper prometheus 11/99/00 ABC Radio News "...... AFTER 39 COUNTIES COMPELETED BUSH LEAD UPIN OFFICIAL COUNT TO 1173. BILL DAILY OF GORE CAMPAIGN THREATENS LAW SUIT OVER PALMBEACH FLAP. SAYS WILL OF PEOPLE OUGHT TO PREVAIL AND GORE SHOULD BE GIVEN THEVICTORY. SAYS PALM BEACH VOTES FOR BUCHANON IMPLAUSIBLE. SAYS PALM BEACH BALLOTCONFUSING. SAYS BUSH CAMPAIGN LACKS FAIRNESS. SAYS WILL OF PEOPLE OUGHT TO DETERMINETHE ELECTION OF THE PRESIDENT. SAYS HAND COUNT TO BE REQUESTED. WILL TAKE LEGALACTION. CLAIMS GORE IS PEOPLE'S CHOICE TO BE PRESIDENT. SAYS BUSH CAMPAIGN TRYING TODIVIDE THE NATION. SAYS LEGAL SYSTEM SHOULD PREVAIL, CLAIMS RULE OF LAW SHOULD DECIDE....."

FoxNews 11/8/00 Freeper Reagan Man "..... Bill Daley, Chris Lehane, Joe Andrews, Paul Belgala and theother Gore thugs are attempting to steal this presidential election out from under the American people. Gorecould still win honestly if he can get enough votes in the recount, but I think Gore and his henchmen knowwhat will actually be the outcome of the recount. ...... Hold on tight a rough ride is ahead for Bush-Cheneyand all their supporters. ......" Freeper Dog Gone adds "......They are committing to fight it. They point to thenational popular vote. Regardless of how the recount comes out they plan to sue, and influence the EC. Thisis essentially a declaration of war and a statement that they won't respect the outcome of the vote. This isserious, folks. ....." Freeper Gritty "...Rush just announced Warren Christopher has announced "voter fraud"in Florida, and the Dims will contest results! ..." Freeper Cosmo "..... I believe that Gore will concede tonightand demonstrate a little class --that is,if he hopes to ever have a hope of winning the Whitehouse in thefuture. This is my prediction. ......" Freeper logos "..... I've been watching this, and it's crunch time, friends.Bill Daley just said that this election must be decided consistent with "the will" of the Constitution, which hethen interpreted to mean whoever wins the popular vote should be the next president. He also said that legalaction will be "supported" regarding all "irregularities" in the voting process. Warren Christopher then stated,briefly, that he affirmed all of Daley's comments. Much talk about how the South Florida voters were"disenfranchised" in this election; also many comments about the "illegal" Florida ballot. Friends, thisconstitutes a declaration of war against the Constitution of the United States by the Democrat Party. I see noother way to interpret these actions and statements. ......"

Associated Press 11/9/00 "..... George W. Bush's margin over Al Gore in make-or-break Florida dwindled tofewer than 1,000 votes Thursday in a continuing recount that held the presidential rivals and the nation inagonizing suspense. Democrats said they would demand a follow-up recount by hand in a few counties andsupport unspecified ``legal actions.'' ........ Daley and others said it was possible Democrats would seek anew election in that county, where, he said, ``the confusion was massive'' because of the design of theballot. ...... Earlier former Secretary of State James A. Baker III, tapped by Bush to represent him in Florida,said he had seen neither allegations of fraud nor evidence of it. He said the controversial Palm BeachCounty ballots had been reviewed before the election by both campaigns, ``and guess what, there were nocomplaints until after the election.'' ....."

NewsMax 11/9/00 "..... More than 300 protesters showed up outside city hall in West Palm Beach today toprotest the presidential election results here in Palm Beach County. Jesse Jackson has arrived but has yet tospeak to the gathering crowd. It is obvious from the Gore/Lieberman signs, and from the usual array ofsuspects - labor unions, government employees, pro-choicers, seniors, etc. - that the Gore campaign hasorchestrated this rally. This is one indication that the Gore campaign is not interested in a simple recount butwill aggressively pursue this in the courts, in the media and in public opinion. ....."

PRNewswire "......"Whichever candidate wins the electoral vote in Florida and goes on to become Presidentof the United States will have won his margin of victory by the votes of non-citizens and illegal aliens, votingin mass numbers in South Florida," charged Edward Nelson, President, U.S. Border Control. ...... "We haveasked legal counsel for U.S. Border Control to review the Florida election results carefully to determine how

a challenge can be made to the votes cast in certain Florida precincts in order to document once and for allthe scope of voting by non-citizens." ......"Thanks to the National Voter Registration Act, commonly known asthe Motor-Voter law, millions of non-citizens and illegal aliens are being invited to register to vote as theyapply for their driver's licenses or welfare benefits." ......."In Florida, as in most other states, the MotorVehicle Department has been advised not to ask if applicants are citizens because this would somehowviolate their civil rights. As a consequence, this 'don't ask -- don't tell' policy is wittingly or unwittingly handingout voter registration cards to tens of thousands of ineligible voters, more than enough to effect the resultsof a close election." ....."

Reuters 11/9/00 Allan Elsner ".....Democrat Al Gore decided on Thursday to fight the results of Tuesday'spresidential election in Florida with campaign officials announcing a legal challenge and demanding arecount by hand of ballots in four counties. .....Without waiting for the result of a recount of the vote inFlorida due later on Thursday, Gore campaign manager William Daley told reporters in the state's capital ofTallahassee that the vice president would not accept the outcome or concede the election to Texas Gov.George W. Bush , the Republican nominee. ...... Referring to mounting complaints of voting irregularities,Daley said: ``Technicalities should not determine the presidency of the United States; the will of the peopleshould. Demanding an end to this election is not the same as demanding that the person who the peoplewant as president takes office.'' .......The statement took the United States into uncharted constitutionalterritory, deepening the uncertainty following Tuesday's election, the closest in U.S. history, which failed toproduce a clear winner. ...... ``Today the appropriate Florida Democratic officials will be requesting a handcount of ballots of Palm Beach County as well as three other counties,'' Daley said. ...... ``In addition today, Iam announcing that we will be working with voters from Florida in support on some legal actions to demandsome redress for the disenfranchisement of more than 20,000 voters in Palm Beach County,'' he said. ....."

Freeper randita 11/9/00 ".... Bush spokesperson in press conference. Refuting all the complaints in PalmBeach County. Says Buchanan got large number of votes there in '96. There are 16,000 people thereregistered in various independent parties affiliated with Reform. 15,000 double punched ballots were thrownout in '96. Says butterf