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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia says the high court did not inject itself into the 2000 presidential election. .......Scalia said: "The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people. We did not go looking for trouble." .........the court had to take the case. "The issue was whether Florida's Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn't important enough?" (Scalia) contended there would have been a difficult transition had the court not stepped in....... (and that) studies by news organizations.....showed...

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 23 2005 Five years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, ex-President Jimmy Carter now says he's certain Al Gore defeated George W. Bush. "Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process," Carter told a panel Monday at American University in Washington, D.C. "There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president." Those in attendance broke out in applause for that statement. "[Gore] received the most votes nationwide, and in my opinion, he also received the most votes in Florida," Carter continued. "And the decision was...

Okay, Now I’m Scared FrontPageMagazine.com | November 16, 2001 WHEN I HEARD THE NEWS, all I could think was, "Oh no, not again!" No, I’m not talking about the Airbus A-300 that crashed into my home borough of Queens Monday morning. I refer to the more ominous events reported by cyber-journalist Matt Drudge the night before. The headline read, "Big Media Florida Recount: Gore Topped Bush If All Under/Over Votes Counted." The myth of the stolen election had returned. Why do I call Drudge’s story "more ominous" than the plane crash? Let me explain. The crash of American Airlines ...

November 16, 2001 Bush by 537; Gore by 537,179 By MARTIN PLISSNER ASHINGTON -- Now that a group of major news organizations has concluded that it was not the Supreme Court that imposed President Bush upon the nation, it's important to note that the voters didn't decide it that way, either. It does not take eight months of research with the University of Chicago to know that the current leader of the free (or at least the antiterrorist) world got half a million fewer votes last year than his opponent. Let it be stipulated at the outset that under ...

Five years after the controversial 2000 presidential election, ex-President Jimmy Carter now says he's certain Al Gore defeated George W. Bush. "Well I would say that in the year 2000, the country failed abysmally in the presidential election process," Carter told a panel Monday at American University in Washington, D.C. "There's no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president."

CARTER: 'No Doubt In My Mind That Al Gore Was Elected President'... "There’s no doubt in my mind that Al Gore was elected president," Carter told an audience at American University last Monday. RAW STORY has the scoop and the audio of Carter at Monday's event....

For the last few months there has been a running debate about the U.S. economy, more or less like this: American families: "We're not doing very well." The administration and some political commentators seem genuinely puzzled by polls showing that Americans are unhappy about the economy. After all, they point out, numbers like the growth rate of G.D.P. look pretty good. So why aren't people cheering? (snip)Corrections: In my column last Friday, I cited an inaccurate number (given by the Conyers report) for turnout in Ohio's Miami County last year: 98.5 percent. I should have checked the official state site,...

  It’s the Truth that CountsPaul Krugman’s outrageous Florida lie. “This will be the subject of about a billion blog entries today. Did Krugman really think he could get away with this?” So wrote John Podhoretz on National Review Online’s The Corner on Friday, stunned by an outrageous lie in Paul Krugman’s New York Times column that day. America’s most dangerous liberal pundit had written, Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida’s ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the election to Mr. Gore. Podhoretz was right. By the end of the day, Krugman’s lie...

Gov. Jeb Bush blasted a Florida congressman Friday for suggesting that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts be disqualified because of a brief meeting the governor and Roberts had during the 2000 presidential recount. An expert in constitutional law then in the private sector, Roberts came to Tallahassee at his own expense to volunteer advice to Bush as the governor's older brother tried to clinch the election over then-Vice President Al Gore. Rep. Robert Wexler, a Democrat, said that meeting alone should disqualify Roberts. "Ready, fire, shoot," Bush said Friday when asked about Wexler's statement. "Everything is off the top of...

Whether due to fading memories or a White House-imposed silence, few of those involved recall details about Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' advice to Gov. Bush during the 2000 recount.TALLAHASSEE - As U.S. Supreme Court nominee John Roberts is scrutinized for everything from his judicial rulings to his abortion views, his role during one of the most memorable times in modern political history remains obscured by imperfect memories and White House-imposed secrecy.

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- During the tumultuous presidential recount in 2000, John Roberts flew to Florida and volunteered advice to Gov. Jeb Bush, whose brother was trying to clinch the election. Some Democrats are now saying the trip should disqualify Roberts from the Supreme Court. Roberts, who was in private practice at the time, accepted Jeb Bush's invitation to come to Florida at his own expense to offer advice to the governor. He spent only about a half hour with Bush and never played a major role at a time when scores of attorneys swarmed into the state. "He came down...

Everything the New York Times Thinks About the Florida Recount Is Wrong!It turns out the U.S. Supreme Court really did cast the deciding vote ...By Mickey KausPosted Tuesday, November 13, 2001, at 1:18 AM PTJust when you thought the Florida recount story was settling down into a familiar bitter partisan dispute, the Orlando Sentinel has changed the story line again. The Sentinel, remember, was the paper that first uncovered the hidden cache  of valid, uncounted "overvotes"—seemingly double-voted ballots that, as the massive media recount of Florida has now confirmed, were the key to a potential Gore victory, if only ...

MIAMI - Miami-Dade County's elections chief has recommended ditching its ATM-style voting machines, just three years after buying them for $24.5 million to avoid a repeat of the hanging and dimpled chads from the 2000 election. Elections supervisor Lester Sola said in a memo Friday that the county should switch to optical scanners that use paper ballots, based on declining voter confidence in the paperless touch-screen machines and quadrupled election day labor costs. Fifteen of Florida's 67 counties chose touch-screen machines after the 2000 election fiasco. The machines have caused problems during at least six elections, including the September 2002...

The Clinton-Gore way of counting © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com "Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." --Josef Stalin In justifying recounts of recounts of recounts in Palm Beach County, the Clinton-Gore Democratic machine explained that they just wanted to ensure "that all votes were counted." "It just wouldn't be fair," the lawyers and spinmeisters explained, "to deny some people their constitutional right to participate in the election process." But that was then. That was a friendly county -- with lots of Democratic votes. That was a county that, statistical science indicates, would continue to deliver ...

After hearing that the outcome of the media consortium's recount of the 2000 Florida vote was coming out last night, I was expecting a fiercely pro-Gore spin by all our favorite liberal newspapers. I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the generally neutral to pro-President Bush slant of the headlines (which is the only part most people would read anyway). Here is the results of my impromptu survey: 1. "Slim win-lose scenarios in Fla. vote review" Source: Boston Globe 2. "Bush Still Had Votes to Win in a Recount, Study Finds" Source: L.A. Times 3. "Study of Disputed Florida ...

Unbelievable. CNN reports, without the usual whining leftist spin, that George W. Bush won the 2000 election recount. And they called him "the right man."

Here's an excerpt.. But if spoiled ballots do indicate disenfranchisement, then the new data show that, by a dramatic margin, the group most victimized in the Florida voting was African American Republicans.

Looks like the Post is following CNN and using a sane headline.

More than 2,100 Florida voters who wanted Al Gore to become president tried to make doubly sure of their choice. So did more than 1,300 voters who backed George W. Bush. They marked a ballot for their candidate and then wrote in his name for president, too. Or they circled the name, or tried to scratch out a mistake, or otherwise made a second mark to emphasize their choice. Those votes could have turned the election for Gore. But the extra emphasis ensured they wouldn't count. Instead, the ballots were labeled as overvotes, or ballots which machines read as having ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A comprehensive study of the 2000 presidential election in Florida suggests that if the U.S. Supreme Court had allowed a statewide vote recount to proceed, Republican candidate George W. Bush would still have been elected president. The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago conducted the six-month study for a consortium of eight news media companies, including CNN. NORC dispatched an army of trained investigators to examine closely every rejected ballot in all 67 Florida counties, including handwritten and punch-card ballots. The NORC team of coders were able to examine about 99 percent of ...