Recount Page #8

Ron, Ron, Ron.

Are you okay? I'm so sorry.

- No, we won.

- I know, but...

We won!

It doesn't matter. We won.

- It does matter.

- I'm so sorry.

The counties are to hand-recount

their ballots,

and to achieve this goal, the final

totals must be accepted by 5:00 p.m.,

November 26.

- They have five more days.

- They just gave Gore the steal sign.

To disenfranchise electors,

as Katherine Harris proposes,

is unreasonable,

unnecessary and violates

long-standing law.

That is a personal attack.

Is this normal?

To reiterate,

there will be two counters

at each table,

containing one member

of each political party.

Disputed ballots will be referred

to the canvassing board.

Now one republican and

one democratic representative

will be observing the counters

and will be allowed

to speak to those counters.

Contested ballots will then be referred

to the canvassing board

for final review.

- There's a small victory here.

- What's that?

They didn't set counting standards.

- We can still fight dimpled chads.

- Dimpled chads is good,

but the real question is

what would happen

if they didn't finish in five days?

I object to the ballot on the grounds it

is not in the guidelines and criteria...

That ballot does not conform

to the 1990 standards.

Bending the ballot can cause chad

to improperly fall from the ballot.

- Gimme a break.

- You can't be serious!

Number five, Gore.

I object to that vote on several counts.

- Number one, it's not...

- Your honor,

he is intentionally trying

to slow down the recount.

Got a five here, definitely a five.

This ballot does not have

two corners detached.

- This woman is eating the chads.

- That's ridiculous.

- I object.

- I object to the ballot.

- I object.

- I object.

A dimpled five. No-vote.

Dimple, number five. No-vote.

That dimple shows clear intent for Gore.

Chads don't indent themselves.

Someone was trying to vote

and Miami-Dade and Broward

are both counting dimpled chads.

Broward changed their standard

in the middle of the recount.

It was biased, unethical and unfair.

Gentlemen, there will be

no more discussion of the standard.

Palm Beach will not be counting

dimpled chads.

What the hell is he doing? He's

literally throwing people's votes away.

Whouley says this will cost us

around 800 votes.

Look at this idiot.

Wait till you see this.

The hand-counting of the ballots

that is ongoing is becoming

completely untrustworthy.

Ballots have been used as fans.

Ballots have post-it notes

stuck to them.

God damn it!

An elderly counter

dropped 20 to 60 ballots.

You have a 70-year-old man

at 2:
00 a.m. in the morning...

How can he say it's fraud?

There's television cameras everywhere.

There's observers from both parties.

They're working under

a goddamn bell jar.

Any response to these allegations?

This characterization of hand recounts

as chaotic and unreliable

is an attempt to discredit

and delay the process

so that we'll miss the new deadline.

They're not counting votes.

They're casting votes.

They're deciding somebody

based on something

meant to vote for someone.

The republicans are the ones

that are creating the chaos,

and they're doing it to prevent

the votes from being counted.

The ballots being looked

at here today have been counted.

They're been recounted.

And this process

of once again recounting

is prone to human error.

It's prone to mischief...

Carol, Carol, you need to see this.

It's all over the internet.

Should we release a denial?

I really don't care

if people think I'm a lesbian.

I just don't want them to think

Suzanne is the best I could do.

Theresa, are you all right?

The election supervisor, she's had

police protection for the last few days.

And Carol Roberts has gotten

nearly 30 death threats.

Certainly, the issues here...

- No-vote.

- Fall squarely on these three people.

- No-vote.

- Objection.

Of course, of course.

No-vote.

Since Broward and Miami-Dade

are counting dimpled chads

and Palm Beach is not,

we can claim the recount

violates the equal protection clause

because all ballots aren't being

evaluated with the same standard.

Rehnquist and Scalia won't go for it.

They've rarely ever ruled

for an equal protection violation.

We'd have to find a victim.

The law is designed

to prevent minorities

from having their voting rights

taken away.

The victims are the people whose votes

were disqualified in one county,

when the exact same vote

would've been counted in another.

I kind of like it.

Maybe Scalia and Thomas

will discover their inner liberal.

I'm sorry to interrupt,

but I wasn't sure

if you could smell this.

What is it?

The pile of sh*t

Al Gore just stepped in.

He's trying to throw out

military ballots.

It's called the Herron memo.

My memo does not target military votes,

Senator Lieberman.

It states the exact standards

that all overseas absentee ballots

must meet in order to be counted.

These are ballots without postmarks,

without witness signatures or dates.

There's no way to tell

if they were sent after election day.

Thus they shouldn't be counted.

I was told that military ballots

without postmarks are common

because soldiers on tankers

usually can't get postmarks.

That's correct, sir,

which is why the memo also states

if a ballot is signed and

dated on or before election day,

this would count the same as a postmark.

I'm not pulling this out of thin air,

sir. This is what the law says.

This is the same issue the republicans

were complaing about last week

when they were worried

about absentee ballots from Israel.

They held a press conference,

sir, in which they said

if absentee ballots

are not properly postmarked

they should not be counted.

That's their line.

That's our line.

Nothing should change, sir.

- All right, I got it.

- Thank you very much.

So democratic lawyers

should drop any objections

to overseas ballots

from armed services personnel?

I think the problem here...

My own point of view, if I was there,

I would give the benefit of the doubt

to ballots coming in

from military personnel...

- God damn it!

- Particularly in light of the letter

and the kind of statements

we've heard about that.

- But the problem here is...

- Mark, I'm sorry.

I apologize. I...

- apologize to everyone.

- It's not your fault, Mark.

If they have the capacity, I'd urge them

to go back and take another look.

- Ron, Daley is on line two.

- Of course he is.

Gore is going ballistic.

What the hell just happened?

I think Joe Lieberman just

entered the 2004 primaries.

The wise Senator Lieberman

says we should take another look

at these military ballots and

I see no reason not

to follow his sage advice.

I want to go back to every

military county in the state to fight

to get these ballots counted.

I'm talking Escambia,

Okaloosa, Santa Rosa, Pasco.

They've had what I would call

a break in the ranks, people.

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