Recount Page #9

- Let's get on it.

- Yes, sir.

Hell's bells, folks,

their own vice presidential candidate

has stated these ballots

should not be discarded.

I think that speaks volumes. Don't you?

But this ballot does not have a postmark

or a witness signature and no date.

Therefore it's impossible to prove

that it wasn't sent after election day

and it shouldn't be counted.

Your Honor,

if a member of our military gets shot,

that bullet won't have

a postmark on it either.

I'll count it.

Thank you, Joe Lieberman.

- May I help you?

- Are you Mr. Willie Whiting?

I'm Pastor Whiting.

Pastor Whiting.

My name is Jeremy Bash.

I work for the democratic party.

I understand you were turned away

from the polls on election day.

Yeah, I was.

Do you have a minute to talk?

What's going on?

This is the official voter purge list.

What's that?

The reason people were turned away

from the polls on election day.

These people were scrubbed

from the voter rolls

because they were supposed

to be convicted felons.

But there are a ton

of people on this list

that never committed

a crime in their lives.

- How does a thing like that happen?

- The Secretary of State's office

paid database technologies $4.3 million

to compile a list of convicted felons

who according to Florida law

would not be allowed to vote.

And then they instructed D.B.T.

to, quote,

"Capture more names

that possibly aren't matches."

This is an actual

e-mail from her office.

So the list is comprised of felons

and anyone whose name happens

to be similar to a felon.

I met Willie D. Whiting. He is a pastor,

but his name is similar

to Willie J. Whiting,

so he was told he couldn't vote.

The supervisor in Leon County

went through his purge list

person by person.

And of the 697 names

that the state gave him,

he found

that only 33 were actual felons.

And the supervisor in Miami-Dade,

he complained that his list

had clear mismatches, but he was told,

"Look, even if the names don't match,

go ahead, consider them felons."

Okay, so?

How many people were

illegally disqualified from voting?

Almost half of them

were African-American.

So can we do anything with this?

You can't get votes back

that were never cast.

All we can do is turn this

over to the N.A.A.C.P.

and hope that they can stop it in 2002.

Remember Elian!

Cuban-Americans are out in force

today to protest against the recount,

still enraged by Clinton's decision

to send Elian Gonzales back to Cuba.

Congressman Sweeney,

why are you here in Miami?

I'm here because Miami-Dade

has become ground zero

for producing a manufactured vote.

Dimpled number six... Gore.

Dimple six... Gore.

- Dimple six... Gore.

- I object.

Duly noted.

We're the new republican party!

We're not gonna take this anymore!

Bush won!

Bush won twice!

- Bush won twice!

- Everybody needs a t-shirt.

Let's go, pass them out!

Hello.

I just heard from our guys

in the Miami-Dade counting room.

The board decided to count undervotes

and they've moved to a backroom.

They're counting in secret.

Well, shut it down.

Number six for Gore.

Dimpled six... that's for Gore.

We want to have a small protest up

near the canvassing board.

Nobody wants to get arrested.

Nobody's gonna get hurt.

We just want to make our point.

After you've heard enough,

you can tell us to leave.

What do you think's gonna happen?

Look at the way we're dressed.

Sit in here.

You can't go in. You can't go in.

Hey, hold on. Stay back.

Punched number seven... no-vote.

- Punched number seven hole... no-vote.

- I object.

It's obvious...

Number five is for Bush,

number seven is for Gore.

These voters clearly did not insert

their ballots properly.

This is preposterous.

We can't guess who

they intended to vote for

when they punched a blank hole.

Let's get a blank ballot

and try to demonstrate this.

- Go.

- All right.

Dimpled number four... Bush.

Could I have everybody's attention?

There is a full protest out in the lobby

and I think

it could escalate out of control.

Let's keep going.

Let us in!

Cheaters, cheaters!

Hi, I'm a lawyer with the recount.

I need a sample ballot, please.

Thank you.

- He's got a ballot!

- No no, it's a sample.

He stole a ballot!

This guy...

He voted for Gore. He's a lawyer

for Gore and he's stealing a ballot!

- Settle down.

- I'm on official business.

I'm a lawyer with the recount.

Just let me by.

- Let me by.

- Stop kicking me!

Stop kicking me!

- Get away from me!

- Don't let him get away.

Leave me alone.

Stop that man!

Cheaters!

The Colonel and I

won't let you leave with that ballot.

Who the f*** is the Colonel?

He's going back! He has a ballot!

You're in big trouble, pal, all right?

Don't put your hands on me.

I'm gonna defend myself if you put

your hands on me one more time!

It's against the law.

He shoved and put his hands on me.

It's voter fraud!

Arrest him! He stole a ballot!

No justice! No peace!

Hold on.

Let us in!

We'd better take a break

until this calms down.

- That's it.

- Voter fraud!

We take Judge Burton to court,

we get the ruling we want:

he still won't count dimpled chads.

- What the hell...?

- Miami-Dade just stopped counting.

They're about to hold a hearing.

Miami-Dade? A hearing about what?

This morning I felt

we could count the undervotes

in five days,

but we are in a very different

situation than we were this morning.

A radically different situation.

I cannot sit here and tell you

that if we begin the process

that we can complete it

by the November 26th deadline.

What the hell is going on?

Why aren't they counting?

Therefore I am going

to have to vote to abandon

the Miami-Dade recount.

I object!

This is for the presidency

of the United States!

We have to at least try

to finish this recount.

Mr. Young, I would like to tell you

that we could get this done in time,

but I don't think we can.

- I'm gonna vote we stop counting.

- Yes, yes!

- I am also going to vote to stop.

- No, no, no, no. We can do this!

We can get these votes counted!

We have to get these votes counted!

A Gore lawyer Ron Klain said that a mob

stormed the counting facility

to stop the count.

That's the myth. Here are the facts.

The demonstration was noisy

and peaceful and nothing else.

There were babies in the crowd.

There were little kids there. There was,

in some ways, a holiday atmosphere.

A holiday atmosphere?

Yeah, like Bastille Day.

These kids were congressional aides

flown in on the Enron jet.

...by the Supreme Court.

Mr. Lakey and others said

that they were not intimidated.

You know, I think I might owe you

an apology for all this.

For what?

Because I'm afraid you might

end up being famous as the lawyer

- who lost Al Gore the Presidency.

- Monica's worried that if we do lose,

I'm never gonna get a job again

in law or in politics.

Me too.

- You know what's funny about all this?

- Nope.

I'm not even sure I like Al Gore.

And it really is time

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