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Bush News Update
November 14, 2000
Contents:
1 Florida Judge Rules 5:00pm Deadline Stands
2 A Proposal to End the Impasse in Florida: A Summary
3 Statement By Former Secretary of State James Baker
4 Las Vegas Sun: Statistics point to more than random
error in Florida vote
5 Philadelphia Inquirer: Gore might lose a second round:
Media suppressed the Bush vote
6 Chicago Sun Times: How Democrats Steal Elections
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1
Court Upholds Florida Vote Deadline
The Associated Press
Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2000; 1:04 p.m. EST
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- A Florida judge ruled Tuesday that state
officials may cut off the vote recount in the state's fiercely
contested presidential election at 5 p.m. EST.
Judge Terry Lewis ruled that counties may file supplemental or
corrected totals after the deadline, and Secretary of State
Katherine Harris may consider them if she employs "proper
exercise of discretion."
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2
A Proposal to End the Impasse in Florida: A Summary
Tuesday, November 14, 2000
Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney want to bring some finality
to the election process in Florida. They believe the American
people are troubled by the prospect of seemingly endless counts
and recounts until one side achieves the results it seeks.
The vote in Florida has been counted. It has been recounted.
Both times, Governor Bush has emerged the winner. And there
have been no allegations of vote fraud in either the count or
the recount. Confusion, yes. Fraud, no. Yet the Gore
campaign refuses to accept the result.
Rather than accept the result, the Gore campaign has demanded
manual recounts in predominantly Democratic counties. In fact,
the Gore campaign specifically selected overwhelmingly Democratic
precincts in these counties to recount.
Broward County
Precinct 1F: 1308 votes for Gore, 62 for Bush;
Precinct 6F: 1175 votes for Gore, 52 for Bush;
Precinct 6C: 1071 votes for Gore, 19 for Bush
This might lead to the conclusion that the Gore campaign is more
focused on selectivity than fairness. Even still, Gore was only
able to pick up four votes through the manual recounts of the
three Gore-chosen counties in Democratic Broward County. Based
on this small change in votes, the Broward County canvassing board
voted to not expand the manual recount to the entire county.
Yet now the Gore campaign wants to force Broward County officials
to continue the manual count. This is after they have talked for
days about letting the local officials run the recounts. And
yesterday, the Florida Secretary of State reiterated that
Florida law unambiguously requires every canvassing board to
certify its election returns by 5:00pm today. Amazingly, the
Gore campaign has filed a lawsuit to block the application of
the statute. It seems the Gore campaign places great weight on
Florida law only when they think it serves their tactics.
In sum, the Gore campaign has been unwilling to accept any
finality. They refused to accept the first vote. They refused
to accept the recount. They refused to accept the manual
recounts in selective counties.
That's why today Secretary James A. Baker offered the following
common sense proposal to solve the impasse:
Governor Bush has objected to the manual recount. Vice President
Gore has objected to today's 5:00pm deadline required by Florida
law. Governor Bush is therefore proposing to accept the manual
recount up to today's 5:00pm deadline if Vice President Gore
agrees. This is fair proposal that will bring this divisive
process to a reasonable conclusion.
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3
Statement By Former Secretary of State James Baker
In earlier statements, we have emphasized the importance of
achieving some finality to the election process, not just here
in Florida, but of course for the nation as a whole. More and
more we see uncertainty in financial markets and we see
uncertainty abroad. I believe that most observers, whether at
home or abroad, are troubled by the prospect of seemingly
endless counts and recounts until a candidate achieves the
result he seeks.
The vote in Florida was counted, and then it was recounted.
Governor Bush was the winner of the vote. He was the winner
of the recount. There have been no allegations of vote fraud in
either the count or in the recount. No fraud---just confusion
of some individuals. Yet the Gore campaign refuses to accept
the result.
For the complete statement, click here:
http://www.georgewbush.com/news/releases/111400_bakerst.html
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4
Las Vegas Sun
Statistics point to more than random error in Florida vote
Jace Radke
11/10/00
At one in 49 million, the chances of hitting Megabucks on
one spin are slim, but not as slim as the odds that Vice
President Al Gore would make up as much ground as he has in
the Florida recount, according to a UNLV study.
Economics professor Tom Carroll began running statistical
equations Thursday on the net gains both Gore, who gained
more than 2,200 votes, and Texas Gov. George W. Bush, who
added about 700 votes, have made in the recount. He found
that the statistical chances for such large and different
totals to occur as a result of random glitches was less
than infinitesimal.
"The probability of being struck by lightning is about one
in a million," Carroll said. "The same person would have to
be hit by lightning 30 times to compare with what we've seen
in this recount."
For the complete article, click here:
http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/archives/2000/nov/10/511018638.html
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5
Philadelphia Inquirer
Gore might lose a second round: Media suppressed the Bush vote
John R. Lott Jr.
11/14/00
With Florida's election results so close, charges of voter
confusion and intimidation fill the air. Votes have been
recounted and are being recounted yet again. Because of the
closeness of the race, problems that have been ignored in the
past are difficult to ignore now.
So what has created this incredible closeness? The Gore campaign,
along with the media, has focused on possible problems in Palm
Beach county. Supposedly, had it not been for the 19,000 spoiled
ballots where voters cast more than two votes for president and
the 3,400 votes that Buchanan received, there would have been a
Gore victory. But by now many have heard that the spoiled ballots
are nothing new in Palm Beach, where 14,800 ballots suffered
similar problems in the last presidential election. Heavily
Republican Duval County apparently had over 25,000 similarly
spoiled ballots.
Buchanan's votes are actually not an anomaly. With 16,695
registered members of the American Reform, Reform and Independent
Parties, Palm Beach is a hotbed of Reform party activity. Indeed,
it has the second highest total Reform and Independent party
membership of any county in the state. Hillsborough County,
which comes in third, lags behind with 11,258 members. Up to
two-thirds of Buchanan's vote in Palm Beach can be explained
simply by county differences in party registration.
A more important explanation for the close results exists. By
prematurely declaring Gore the winner shortly before polls had
closed in Florida's conservative western Panhandle, the media
ended up suppressing the Republican vote. Bush obtained over
65 percent of the vote in the affected area. With only 329 votes
separating the two candidates Friday morning, even a few hundred
discouraged votes in addition to the 379,000 cast in Florida's
western panhandle could have made a crucial difference.
For the full article:
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20001113_xex_how_democrat.shtml
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6
Chicago Sun-Times
Many Partial, spoiled ballots
Scott Fornek and Abdon M. Pallasch
11/14/00
Cook County--home of the notorious "butterfly" ballot--was more
likely than any other Chicago area county to have voters who
skipped the presidential contest on their ballots last week or
mistakenly chose more than one candidate.
City and suburban officials said 122,859 of the 1,987,954 people
who cast ballots in the county either did not punch a choice in
the top contest or spoiled their ballot for that race by punching
more than one hole.
In Chicago, the 72,934 ballots represented 7.1 percent of all
ballots cast. In suburban Cook, the 49,925 ballots were 5.2 percent
of the total.
Comparable figures in the other five counties ranged from 0.4
percent for McHenry to 2.5 percent for Will, according to a Chicago
Sun-Times analysis of last week's vote.
Election officials in Cook County conceded the numbers were higher
than normal. But they could not provide an explanation for the
discrepancy or a breakdown, so it was impossible to tell if the
absence of votes was largely voluntary or a problem voters had
with the ballots.
For the complete article, click here:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/orr14.html
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