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Saturday November 18 4:38 PM ET
Christopher Said To Influence Tally
By KARIN MEADOWS, Associated Press Writer
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Former Secretary of State Warren
Christopher called the Democratic lawyer for Palm Beach County's
elections supervisor to try to get the attorney to use his
influence to assure a manual recount would be conducted there.
Christopher, who is leading the Gore campaign's recount effort in
Florida, made the phone call Thursday morning to Bruce Rogow, who
represents elections supervisor Theresa LePore.
``It was an effort to have me persuade my client to vote in favor
of starting the manual recount on Thursday. I told him no. I
told him we'd have to wait,'' Rogow said.
``I thought everyone got the message that the best thing to do
was let me be a lawyer and not a politician,'' he said.
Hours later, the Florida Supreme Court cleared the way for
workers to begin hand counting the county's 462,350 ballots.
Rogow, a registered Democrat and a law professor at Nova
Southeastern University in neighboring Broward County, said he
was on the way to a meeting with LePore and the other two members
of the Palm Beach canvassing board when he was called by Alan
Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor representing a group of
voters in Palm Beach County.
While he talked to Dershowitz, Christopher's call came in.
Rogow said he didn't consider it appropriate for Christopher or
Dershowitz to try to ``persuade me to give certain advice to my
client.''
``The irony is that within a couple of hours, the Supreme Court
entered an interim order allowing the hand count to continue,''
Rogow said. ``The Democrats were delighted that evening.''
Calls to the Democratic National Committee,Gore campaign and
George W. Bush's campaign seeking comment on Christopher's call
were not immediately returned.
Republicans charge Democrats also may have influenced election
officials in Miami-Dade, Florida's largest county, where the
canvassing board reversed itself and ordered a hand recount of
654,000 punch-card ballots that is to begin Monday morning.
The canvassing board first voted Tuesday not to conduct a
countywide recount after an initial hand tally of 5,871 ballots
in three overwhelmingly Democratic precincts gave Gore only six
more votes. Then, at a meeting Friday, the board decided to go
ahead with the recount.
Before the meeting, Republican attorney Bob Martinez asked board
members to ``stick to your convictions.''
Judge Myriam Lehr, who changed her vote on the three-member panel
and forced the manual recount, bristled at suggestions she was
influenced.
``Nobody has pushed me,'' she said. ``I was not pushed by
anyone. I've done my job.''
Martinez would not comment Saturday on whether he thought Lehr
was pressured to change her vote. But he wondered why she did.
``No new facts were presented, the law remained the same and yet
the outcome changed. Why?'' Martinez said. ``I don't want to
question anyone unfairly, but I think the public has a right to
question what happened between Tuesday and Friday.'' Copyright ©
2000 The Associated Press.
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