Randi Rhodes on 2000 election...

[kevinam]

Can anyone can help me out. I keep hearing Randi say that a collection of newspapers counted the Florida ballots from the 2000 election. She claims that of 9 senarios they used to count the ballots that Shrub* lost 6 of them. I am having trouble finding that information online. I got into it a little bit this weekend with a right winger, and I would like to know the truth. The right winger claims basically the opposite and that there was voter fraud on the part of democrats. Thanks for your help.
Kevin.

[Eric J in MN]

1. It's in Al Franken's book, "Lies and the Lying Liars"

A headline like "Gore Won Under Any Standard" is misused by Ann Coulter, Franken says.

[tridim]

2. Randi is correct

Of course this doesn't even take into account the proven disenfranchisement of black voters and the butterfly ballot. Your RW friend needs to read the entire article.

[gumby]

3. Try this

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/111201a.html

Consortiumnews is a great site, lots of valuable, credible information.

[bobbieinok]

6. a good source...remember, the results were supposed to be released

9-12-01......they were held back after 9-11 and for a while weren't going to be released at all 'so pre 9-11' ..... then they were held back longer (some said to fix) and then released, as this source shows with false headlines and true info (Gore won) buried inside

[doubleplusgood]

4. here's a link to site with the raw data

From the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago:

http://www.norc.org/fl/index.asp

[bobbieinok]

5. here's a source

http://www.literalpolitics.com/Archives/recountlie.htm

this article is by Paul Lukasiak.....he wrote many more on FL2000...now he's writing about W in the TANG