Reno, McBride in Close Fla. Race (Reno Might Pull An Algore Over The Same Counties)

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | September 11, 2002 | ROBERT TANNER

[PJ-Comix]

Both the closeness of the Florida race and widespread complaints at many state polling places eerily echoed Florida's 2000 election, which left the presidential race in limbo for weeks.

This is what is known as Karmatic Kickback.

Broward County, which was favoring Reno by a better than 2-1 margin, suspended the ballot count just before 5 a.m. with 93 percent of the votes tallied and the race too close to call. Workers planned to resume the count at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

So don't expect any election result updates until after 9 this morning.

Reno's campaign warned it would consider contesting the Democratic primary results as she trailed by 2 percent of votes cast.

YEAH! YEAH! YEAH! This is what I have been hoping for---Janet Reno pulling an Algore and a disputed election that could drag on for weeks. BEAUTIFUL!!!

By Wednesday, thousands of votes still hadn't been counted in three large South Florida counties where Reno hoped to catch up — Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach, some of the same counties that figured prominently in the 2000 election dispute.

Ah! I LOVE Karmatic Kickback!!!

Besides the problems in Miami-Dade, Broward County officials said they couldn't find 12 cartridges that store votes from the touchscreen machines.

How many votes per cartridge?

In Maryland, state Sen. Christopher Van Hollen ( news, bio, voting record) defeated Kennedy cousin Mark Shriver...

Another good piece of election news!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Fla Elections Returns, live thread! (Update - Reno-McBride a near tie)

[MeekOneGOP]

[MeekOneGOP]

BUG EYED CHAD SEARCH

SCOFLA: Floriduh Supreme Court

[RippleFire]

Count every vote - several times.

[putupon]

Hang some chads, count the dimples, do whatever it takes. Just let the Wookie win!

[PJ-Comix]

This is my FAVORITE photo that came out of the 2000 Florida recount battle:

[PJ-Comix]

If the margin between Reno and McBride turns out to be 537 votes, that will be absolute proof of the existence of God....and that he has a wild sense of humor.

[cardinal4]

Crayons and visuals might be the only thing to get Reno elected. The problem is 2nd graders cant vote!! Oh,wait a minute.....

[GailA]

Want to bet 2nd graders don't vote...10 year olds do in Memphis.

[Overtaxed]

OFHS why can't Floriduh come out of the Stone Age and use optical scanners!

[MeekOneGOP]

heh heh ! I love that one too !

[alley cat]

In the first test of the state's revamped elections system, polling places opened late, and workers had problems starting up new touchscreen voting machines and running other ballots through scanning machines.

WTF??? Didn't anybody in Floriduh think to test the system before the election????

[cardinal4]

I also forgot about the homeless people who voted here in STL and in Milwaukee.

[Thebaddog]

They had two years to get this right. McDonalds can get an order right using high school help and these mopes lose the voting cartridges after votes are cast on the touch screen. Why wasn't the whole farking process hardwired to take out the human element altogether?

[PJ-Comix]

Why wasn't the whole farking process hardwired to take out the human element altogether?

Because Broward County wants the publicity that comes with being the butt of election jokes like back in 2000.

[Overtaxed]

Why wasn't the whole farking process hardwired to take out the human element altogether?

So the dims could cheat easier?

[small voice in the wilderness]

Will someone please wake up warren christopher and let him know he is needed in Fla. again?!?

Gotta love those crazy Floridian dems. Perhaps the voting booth needs to be completely done away with. Maybe a simple "stomp once for reno, twice for mcbride" would suffice.

[PJ-Comix]

What's really great here is that the famous stubbornness of Janet Reno may well prevent her from conceding the election. I have a feeling she will challenge the results for weeks to come and flat out refuse to concede. An Algore all over again and over the SAME counties.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

[I still care]

I beg to differ with you. Every time I go through McDonalds they leave out my fries. EVERY time. Just yesterday they gave me soda instead of my ice cream.

But you know, I live in Florida. I guess they are training to be poll workers.... :)