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STATEMENT FROM SECRETARY JAMES A. BAKER III
The American people voted on November 7. Governor George W.
Bush won 31 states with a total of 271 electoral votes. The vote
in Florida was very close, but when it was counted, Governor Bush
was the winner.
Now, three days later, the vote in Florida has been recounted.
Over two-thirds of the state election supervisors overseeing the
recount are Democrats.
At the end of this recount, Governor Bush is still the winner,
subject only to counting the overseas ballots, which have
traditionally favored the Republican candidate. No evidence of
vote fraud either in the original vote or in the recount has been
presented.
Now the Gore campaign is calling for yet another recount in
selective and predominantly Democratic counties where there were
unexplained large vote swings in their favor in the recount.
It appears that the Gore campaign is attempting to unduly prolong
the country's national Presidential election through endless
challenges to the results of the vote here in Florida.
Furthermore, the more often ballots are recounted, especially by
hand, the more likely it is that human errors, like lost ballots,
and other risks, will be introduced. This frustrates the very
reason why we have moved from hand counting to machine counting.
Let me say a word specifically about the Palm Beach ballot.
There is a rule of law to be followed for elections. The state
of Florida has established legal procedures to design, approve,
publish and, if need be, to protest ballots before the election.
The ballot was designed by a Democratic elections supervisor.
She approved it. The Democratic Party did not question it before
the election. This "butterfly"-type ballot was used in recent
elections in the same county under the same rules. Again, the
Democrats did not complain. The overwhelming majority of voters
who used the ballot understood it and cast valid votes. Our
lawyers have confirmed the legality of this ballot, and we have
copies of the relevant Florida statute available for you to see.
The Gore campaign has also tried to make a lot of the fact that
double marked ballots are not counted. A key principle in
America is one person, one vote. If we have ballots with two
votes, of course we cannot count them or guess about them.
Ballots that are double-marked can't be evidence of the voter's
intent to vote one way or another. No jurisdiction in the United
States would accept such a ballot as a valid vote, and Florida
law specifically does not. It happens in every precinct in every
election. And the procedure is clear: These ballots must be
disregarded.
We understand, and I understand personally, that it is
frustrating to lose by a narrow margin. But it happens. It
happened to the Republican Presidential candidates in 1960 and
1976. Both Vice President Nixon and President Ford put the
country's interest first. They accepted the vote for the good of
the country.
It is important that there be some finality to the election
process. What if we insisted on recounts in other states that are
very close? For example, in Wisconsin, Iowa, (and if we don't
win) New Mexico.
Let the country step back a moment, pause, and think about what's
at stake. This may be the last chance. There is no reasonable
end to this process if it slips away.
The purpose of our national election is to establish a
"Constitutional government," not unending legal wrangling. We
will therefore vigorously oppose the Gore campaign's efforts to
keep recounting until it likes the result. For the good of the
country and the sake of our standing in the world, the
campaigning should end, and the business of an orderly transition
should begin.
STATEMENT FROM BUSH COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR KAREN HUGHES:
"The vote count on Tuesday night showed Governor Bush won
Florida's election, and a recount has now confirmed his victory.
The only votes left to be counted are the overseas absentee
ballots, which in the past have favored Republican candidates.
Bob Dole carried the overseas ballots in Florida in 1996 by a
margin of 54 to 40 percent, even though he lost the election in
Florida. We hope Vice President Gore and his campaign will
reconsider their threats of lawsuits or still more recounts,
which could undermine the constitutional process of selecting a
President and has no foreseeable end."
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