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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...chairman Poole, now a lobbyist in Tallahassee, regards that as tiresome demonization. Harris "has modernized the elections office," he insists. "And what she's done to bring in economic development outside of tourism shows how strong and independent she is." Even a Democrat like political consultant Ron Sachs, a former aide to the late Governor Lawton Chiles, says Harris has proved "a masterful hardball politician under extraordinary pressure. She's made sure that every move she makes says, 'I'll be damned if I'm the one who's going to get blamed for costing [George W.] Bush the election...
...produced three different counts. "It was not the most comforting feeling when you had to do a recount with punch cards," says Gardner. "We often had to decide how much light going through a tear would be enough to rule that it was a vote for the candidate. Even some winning candidates just felt bad about the process...
Just look at the numbers, especially in the all-important swing states. In Florida, the most crucial of them all, black votes constituted 15% of the turnout, up from 10% in 1996, even though they make up only 13% of the state's voting-age population. In Missouri, black turnout rose from 5% of the total turnout in the last election to 12%--not enough to keep the state out of Bush's column but assuring the election of the late Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan (his widow will serve his term). Blacks in Tennessee, says political scientist David Bositis...
...time, and they routinely deliver victory to the management's nominees for the board of directors by huge majorities without any fuss. Only an election run by government bureaucrats would be handled so incompetently that it produces a close vote, let alone so irresponsibly that a Democrat is even allowed to win every now and then...
...private business sector they manage to count the votes without wandering into a jungle of butterfly ballots and dangling chads. Actually, for all we know, they don't even count the votes. But we trust the management to do it right. Or rather, since none of the candidates can claim to be protecting Social Security from any other candidate, we don't much care whether they count the votes right. Trust and indifference amount to the same thing...