Fla. Recount Is Likely Just Start of Fight
By Edward Walsh and Daivd Maraniss / Washington Post
TALLAHASSEE -- Dueling former secretaries of state and brigades of party lawyers headed south to Florida today as county elections supervisors across the state began recounting votes, the first step of what promised to be a lengthy and contentious process of determining which candidate captured the state's electoral votes and therefore the presidency. The recount mandated by state law because of the narrowness of the margin promised to be just chapter one of the continuing national drama over the identity of next president, with Democrats signaling their intention to exhaust every available avenue to contest the initial Florida results and capture the White House.
Lawsuit Seeks New Election Over `Misleading' Ballot
By Karin Meadows / The Associated Press
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- The lawsuit came after hundreds of Gore
supporters flooded the Palm Beach County elections office with calls
Wednesday, saying they feared they had mistakenly voted for Buchanan.
Lawyers for the Democrat Party said that the design of the Palm Beach
County ballot is illegal and that they may ask for a re-vote. But no
immediate action was taken by the party.
Lawyers Swoop In Following Elections
By Frank J. Murray / The Washington Times
Platoons of lawyers moved in behind voters yesterday, seeking to win in the courts the battles candidates lost at the polls. Complaints of ballot monkeyshines were filed in several critical states — most loudly from Florida, where the entire presidential election hung by a thread with fewer than 1,800 votes separating winner and loser out of more than 6 million ballots cast.
Justice Dept. To Review Fla. Allegations
By Michael Kirkland / UPI
WASHINGTON (UPI) - The Justice Department told United Press International Wednesday evening it will review Democrat allegations of missing ballot boxes in Florida. Democrats have charged that numerous irregularities in Florida voting cost Gore thousands of votes. Bush held less than an 1,800 vote-lead on the first count.
Gore's Slight Victory Makes Iowa Recount A Possibility For Bush
By Chris Clayton / Omaha World-Herald
DES MOINES -- The closest presidential race in Iowa history could face a recount to protect George W. Bush from the loss of Florida's electoral votes. Recounts in Iowa and other close states could be important to Bush if Florida's electoral votes are awarded to Gore. Each state has its own procedures and deadlines, which Bush cannot afford to miss if he wants to protect his position.
Florida Cops Accused of Harassing Black Voters
APBnews.com
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- As the world awaits a recount in Florida to learn the outcome of the presidential election, some black voters here are charging that they were deliberately harassed by state troopers who set up a roadblock near a polling station.
Jesse Jackson Hints Legal Challenge To Fla Vote
By Paul Singer / UPI
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Rev. Jesse Jackson Wednesday called for a thorough investigation of the voting process in Florida and suggested black leaders may initiate legal action to challenge "patterns of irregularities" that appeared to interfere with a full accounting of African-American voters.
Military Vote in Florida Could Cement Bush Victory
NewsMax.com
WASHINGTON -- Defense Secretary William Cohen predicted the military vote will have a strong impact on whether Florida's electoral votes - and thus the presidency - go to Republican George W. Bush or Democrat Al Gore. The military is largely presumed to be heavily Republican, with some estimates counting as many as 80 percent of the 1.2 million active-duty personnel.
North vs. South in Battle for Florida
By Bruce I. Friedland / Jacksonville Times-Union
The fight for Florida and the White House went down to the wire as Al
Gore and George W. Bush battled for the state's 25 electoral votes.
Now More Than Ever The Nation Depends On The Rule Of Law
Wall Street Journal
In a surreal moment, Bill Daley, son of the legendary Chicago Mayor Richard J. Daley, took the stage in Nashville before a crowd of Al Gore supporters to declare that the 2000 election was "too close to call" and that "this campaign continues." It was 40 years ago when the elder Daley's Chicago figured so prominently in charges that the photo-finish election that year between Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon had been stolen for the Democrats. An acrimonious repeat of that controversy could be upon us.
Hail Zogby – And Beware Reno!
By John LeBoutillier / NewMax.com
Florida -- Bush is inches ahead, but as I warned last week in "Close Enough To Steal," the conditions exist for the Democrats to make their move now in Florida. The Florida attorney general, Butterworth, is also Gore’s Florida campaign chairman. Uh oh! That should be worrisome. But, even worse, you just know that the U.S. Justice Department will be in there in a hot minute. And guess who is from Florida – and heads the Justice Department? Janet Reno!
Jim Collier's Ghost and Voter Fraud in South Florida
By Christopher Ruddy / NewsMax.com
As I sit here in the middle of the night and find out the vote is closer than anyone imagined in Florida, I am being visited by the ghost of Jim Collier. Jim and his brother James wrote a wonderful book called "Votescam" detailing the rampant voting fraud that regularly took place in South Florida. Guess who voter fraud flourished under when the Colliers investigated this abuse? Janet Reno, who, as the state attorney, served as Miami's chief law enforcement officer.
The Story Behind the Near-Concession
By Sandra Sobieraj /The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- 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 First Post-Clinton Scandal
By Joseph Farah / WorldNetDaily.com
The California Democrat Party paid for the mailing of an 11th-hour
Bill Clinton campaign letter to unregistered, non-citizen Hispanics
urging them to use a bogus "Voter Identification Card" at the polls
yesterday, greatly increasing the potential for rampant voter fraud in
the nation's richest electoral college state.
Gore Disgraced in Tennessee
NewsMax.com
Al Gore on Tuesday became the first major-party presidential candidate since George McGovern in 1972 to lose his home state. And he lost President Clinton's home state, too. Many Tennesseans say they don't consider Gore one of their own anyway, what with his close ties to Washington.
The Tennessee Question
By Richard Powelson and Tom Humphrey / Scripps Howard
If Al Gore simply had carried his home state of Tennessee and received
those 11 electoral votes Tuesday, he already would be president-elect
rather than awaiting his fate from the recount of Florida's votes.
Lieberman Still Has His Day Job
By Brigitte Greenberg / The Associated Press
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Joseph Lieberman postponed the Connecticut victory
rally and headed back to Washington instead. He was still a senator,
indeed just re-elected to a new six-year term.
How The Democrats Plan To Subvert The Electoral College
By Michael Long / The National Review
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 life to subvert the Electoral College. You didn't think he was just going to take this lying down, did you? The Democrats are about to launch their biggest, dirtiest campaign in modern history. This is the one that you'll tell your grandkids about.
Major Media Blew It
By Mike Gallagher / NewsMax.com
It’s always been easy to beat up on the news media. As a radio talk show host, I’ve done it for years. But this time, most news organizations owe the country a giant explanation, if not an outright apology, for the way they reported the race for presidential votes. Exit polls were never designed to determine the actual voter count. They were supposed to be in place in order to ask voters exiting the polls why they voted the way they did. Instead, competitive news organizations turned exit polls into "scoops" – a way to try and beat the other news organization by being the first to declare a state like Florida. And what a disaster that turned out to be.
Networks Try To Explain Blown Call
By David Bauder / The Associated Press
NEW YORK -- Television networks tried to explain Wednesday how they blew a call on the Florida election results – not once but twice – the second time prematurely declaring George W. Bush the next president.
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