USA: ARGUMENTS OVER DISPUTED BALLOTS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ARE WRAPPED UP IN COURTROOM

Record ID: 977466

  • Title: USA: ARGUMENTS OVER DISPUTED BALLOTS IN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION ARE WRAPPED UP IN COURTROOM
  • Date: 5th December 2000
  • Summary: WASHINGTON, D.C. (DECEMBER 3, 2000) (POOL) 1. SLV EXTERIOR CHURCH 0.05 2. MV AL GORE AND WIFE TIPPER GORE COMING OUT OF CHURCH 0.22 WASHINGTON, D.C. (DECEMBER 3, 2000) (NBC - NO ACCESS USA/CNN/INTERNET) 3. MV VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE CHENEY WITH NBC TALK SHOW HOST TIM RUSSERT ON "MEET THE PRESS" NEWS PROGRAM 0.25 4. (SOUNDBITE) (English) VICE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE DICK CHENEY SAYING "I do think it's time for him to concede. So far he's chosen not to do that, to pursue other avenues and that's his prerogative. But I think long term, history would regard him in a better light if he were to bring this to a close in the very near future." 0.45 TALLAHASSEE, FLORIDA (DECEMBER 3, 2000) (POOL) 5. MV GORE ATTORNEY DAVID BOIES WALKING UP TO DAIS IN COURT 0.54 6. (SOUNDBITE) (English) GORE ATTORNEY DAVID BOIES SAYING: "In a significant number of instances, not even five percent or ten percent but down to the level of one or two percent, maybe not enough to make a difference in most elections, but many times more than enough to make a difference in this election, you have ballots that for whatever reason are not machine-readable. Whether it's the people or it's the machines. We have submitted we think a lot of evidence that it is not the people, that it is the machines. But whether it is the people or whether it is the machines is not the critical question. The critical question is are there votes out there from which a review of the ballot can discern the intent of the voter." 1.47 7. SCU JUDGE SANDERS SAULS; MV BUSH ATTORNEY BARRY RICHARD APPROACHING DAIS (2 SHOTS) 1.57 8. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BUSH ATTORNEY BARRY RICHARD SAYING: "There is no suggestion that the county canvassing boards were not both reasonable and competent in making the decisions that they made. In fact Mr. Brace, the plaintiff's witness, said they were among the most professional canvassing boards in the country. And I leave the court with two questions in the course of your deliberations. The first is what this court would do again different or instruct anyone else to do different from what the Palm Beach County canvassing board did. And the second is whether Florida is prepared to tell the American people that it will disqualify its electors and possibly hinge the President on the only two witnesses presented by the plaintiffs." 2.58 WASHINGTON D.C. (DECEMBER 3, 2000) (REUTERS) 9. SLV SUPREME COURT WITH PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF IT 3.03 10. (SOUNDBITE) (English) GORE SUPPORTER SAYING: "What are you afraid of. Let them look. If he does not have enough votes, but you are going to leave with the legislature jumping in, George Bush's brother Jeb, being in Florida, Harris being down there. All the Bush supporters should not want any cloud over their head that the true man got in there." 3.23 11. (SOUNDBITE) (English) BUSH SUPPORTER SAYING "I think they're wasting their time. Because first of all the voting has been done. We had the rules in place prior. If you want to change the rules you have to put in place for the next election. You can't do it now If your person did not win, I'm sorry about it. But we have a republic. We do not have a democracy. It's a republic where states are represented." 12. PROTESTERS IN FRONT OF THE SUPREME COURT 3.45 12. SLV DEMONSTRATORS WITH PLACARDS 3.52 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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