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Trust me—you really don’t know what you’re missing.
By Dr. Bill Wattenburg
December 8, 2000
The Florida Supreme Court today ordered that 215 votes from Palm Beach County must be added to the Gore total. This is fair because these votes were counted completely and fairly. However, the court also ordered 168 votes from a partial recount in Miami Dade County to be added to Gore. That was political and discriminatory in the most vulgar way. And any person who can do simple arithmetic can confirm this from the records and the court’s own numbers for Miami Dade given in its order today, pages 28–29. These numbers are given below.
Claims by propagandists that the Florida Supreme Court today ordered a fair and full recount of all ballots in Florida are false. The court ordered a recount of undervotes (no discernible vote for president) only. But for Miami Dade County, they will count only the 9000 remaining undervotes not previously counted by hand that gave Gore another 168 votes. And this will be done in Tallahassee by judges using different standards than were use to get Gore the first 168 awarded by the court before the recount begins.
The court did not order a full recount of all 10,750 undervotes identified by machines in all precincts in Miami Dade. There should be, if anything, a clean recount of all 10,750 using the same rules for all ballots. But, the court deliberately reserved the net 168 counted by hand by democratic friends for Gore and then said that the remaining 9000 should be recounted in Tallahassee by new judges. Why? This is the equivalent of giving your friends some points from the last football game played before you start the new game.
The Florida Supreme Court today ordered that 168 votes from Miami Dade County be added to Gore. These votes came from a total manual recount of 40,000 or more ballots from selected precincts which were 75% to 25% democratic voters. Knowing this by their own admission in their order of today (pages 28–29), the same court ordered that only the remaining 9000 “undervotes” that were identified by machines should be recounted by new judges in Tallahassee. Why not all of the original 10,750 undervotes in Miami Dade? This is what the court ordered for all other counties.
These 9,000 remaining overvotes were not identified by a full hand count (and the same rules) as the ballots that produced the additional 168 for Gore. The rules set down by independent judges in Tallahassee for counting 9,000 ballots with no clear vote for president will certainly be more strict than those used by the Miami Dade Board. However, the Florida Supreme Court did not order a new, full recount of all 10,750 Miami Dade “undervotes” using the same rules that will be used to recount the 9,000 left over. It said: “keep what is in Gore’s favor so far, and then count the rest with new rules.”
The democratic campaign propagandists claim that black people were discriminated against in some way. But they don’t mention that the heavily Hispanic and Cuban areas in Miami Dade that voted republican were deliberately not included in the 20% of precincts used for a partial full manual recount. Miami Dade County overall voted about 53% for Gore and 47% for Bush, not 75% Gore, 25% Bush. Why did they only select ballots from the strong Gore supporters for a partial full manual recount? They easily could have selected 20% of the precincts that represented an approximate 53% Gore, 47% Bush distribution of voters. They did not have to leave out the minority groups in the other precincts.
These net 168 votes for Gore did not come from just a recount of the 10,750 “undervotes” that were identified by the machines.
The full manual recount of only 20% of precincts in Miami Dade produced 436 additional votes beyond what had been counted by the previous machine count for these same precincts. This was 302 for Gore and 134 for Bush to equal 168 for Gore.
Here are the numbers to keep in mind—taken directly from the Florida Supreme Court order, 12-8-2000, page 28–29, and the sworn testimony in Judge Sauls’ trial.
1. During Nov 19 to Nov 21, Miami Dade Canvassing Board (MDCB) selected 20% of precincts to recount all ballots—note that this was all ballots, not just those culled out as “undervotes” by machines because there was no clear vote for president.
However, these selected precincts were in the north coast area that voted democratic by 75% to 25%. No precincts in the Cuban and Hispanic areas that voted heavily for Bush were included in the 20% sample. Why?
Hence, it was known ahead of time by the MDCB that any new votes found among the “undervotes” not counted by the machines would most likely be in favor of Gore by a 3 to 1 margin if all other factors were equal.
2. During the full manual recount of these 20% precincts, 1,750 of the 10,750 machine identified “undervotes” were evidently examined and tallied while manually counting all ballots from these areas. This left 9,000 undervote ballots from mostly republican precincts that were not counted by the same rules that were applied to get 168 more votes for Gore out of the heavily democratic areas. At that time, November 21, the Miami Dade Canvassing Board decided to stop its recount. Why? Palm Beach County managed to count almost all of their 400,000 plus votes before the deadline.
Could it be that they the democratic Miami Dade Board knew that if they continued to count the republican precincts in Miami Dade that they would come up with more votes for Bush? Use your own judgment.
Now, the four Florida Supremes have blessed this vulgar manipulation. It is the same as allowing your home team to replay a football game by selecting only the plays that gave them yardage until they get enough for another touchdown.
There is a good reason why the Gore team focused on selected precincts in Miami Dade county. It is the same reason that four Democratic members of the Florida Supreme Court ordered that 168 Miami Dade votes from a partial recount on November 19 to November 21 must be added to the Gore total—without even recounting these partial precincts by the same standards used to recount the rest of the precincts. In other words, the Florida Supreme Court blatantly said: “Give Gore credit for the 168 that were previously produced by the Miami Dade people and then count the rest of the ballots that could favor republicans by different standards to be established by judges in Tallahassee.”
Gore propagandists steadfastly claim that all the overvotes will be counted fairly. This is not true. They know that their friends on the Florida Supreme Court today simply put more points on the scoreboard for Gore before the recount can begin.
The world has praised Judge Charles Burton for the fair manner in which he set the rules and conducted the total manual recount in Palm Beach County before the TV cameras. The Florida Secretary of State, Kathrine Harris, accepted 170 Palm Beach votes for Gore that were reported by the deadline established by the previous Florida Supreme Court order. Now, the court has now given her a different interpretation of their previous order. The four Democratic supporters on the court now say that they really meant that she should have accepted all votes counted later (215) no matter when the votes were reported after the deadline that the court itself had specified. Fine. But there was no prior statement whatsoever that this deadline should be arbitrarily extended.
Kathrine Harris did exercise discretion in favor of Gore by correcting the partial results submitted by Palm Beach county at 5pm because they had left out thousands of votes for Gore. Nevertheless, Florida Secretary of State Kathrine Harris has been assaulted by democratic party public and media propagandists as unfair, evil, immoral, and at best partisan because she followed the laws that were given her. How many women of either party affiliation in this nation would appreciate being degraded for simply doing the job they were told to do?
These same political propagandists don’t bother to mention that they know full well that Kathrine Harris would be replaced by the Florida Attorney General if she stepped aside. The Florida Attorney General just happens to be a Democrat who is the Florida Campaign manager for Gore, just as Harris is the Florida campaign manager for Bush. Exactly the same degree of partisan involvement by both.
These Democratic propagandists want the nation to believe that a person who chooses to be a Republican, as half the nation has chosen, must be sinister—in particular if you are a woman. They say nothing about the man who would replace her if they got their way.
Not a very smart thing to be saying to the millions of professional women in both parties who deserve to be given the same respect as men for doing the same job. Unfortunately, this is the spin that has put on anyone who hasn’t pleased the Gore campaign.
Copyright © 2000 Dr. Bill Wattenburg
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