Are you saying that the validation for the decision will be shared with a "republican" "supervisor with each ballot. I dont think so. Sunday November 12, 2000; 7:34 PM ET Buchanan: Hand Recount Could Lead to Fraud and Vote Theft Pat Buchanan, who said last week that any votes he got by mistake in Palm Beach County, Fla., rightfully belong to Vice President Al Gore, said Sunday that Texas Gov. George Bush may end up losing the election because of "potential fraud and potential theft." Appearing on CNN's "Late Edition," host Wolf Blitzer asked Buchanan about those voters who claimed they double-punched their ballots for both Gore and Buchanan. BLITZER: Some people decided apparently that they weren't going to ask for a new ballot. They didn't know they could get a new ballot. And that's why they're saying they accidently voted for you, then they voted for Gore, discarding the entire ballot. BUCHANAN: Let's back away and get to the reality. Bush won the popular vote in Florida. Bush won the recount. The Democrats are demanding a recount by hand in four counties that are heavily Democratic. That not only lends itself to human discretion and human error, it opens the thing up to more than just mischief. I mean, a lot of those people can look up at those ballots and say, "Well, a tie, let's give it to our friend Al Gore." The machine is not going to give something to Al Gore that he didn't get. ... In a situation like that, that lends itself to potential fraud and potential theft, once you get human beings in there dealing with that.
