Thursday, September 12, 2002

Count Every Vote Alert!
The Daytona News-Journal provides a chuckle with Reno won't concede Democratic gubernatorial primary:
Janet Reno refused to concede the Democratic gubernatorial race Thursday even though unofficial returns showed her losing to Tampa attorney Bill McBride by about 8,000 votes out of more than 1.3 million cast.

Reno's campaign attorney Alan Greer said the former U.S. attorney general has not decided whether she will seek a recount or go to court to overturn the result, but was keeping her options open.

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Bush and many voters blamed the problems Miami-Dade's and Broward's elections chiefs, whose counties bought touchscreen voting machines to replace punchcard equipment. All counties were required to get rid of punchcard ballots.

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"It's a black eye for Miami-Dade County and Broward County," said Gov. Bush, the president's brother. "More resources, more training, more equipment, more state dollars, two years to do this, and it appears there were flaws in the implementation. Sixty-five counties got it right. Hillsborough County got it right, Pinellas County got it right, Duval County got it right. Miami and Broward need to work on this to get it right in November."
If they got it right, they couldn't steal elections.