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Originally posted by Lebell
The 2000 Florida recount
Reviewing the 2000 election during the opening of the film, Moore uses a quote from CNN legal commentator Jeffrey Toobin to make a deeply misleading suggestion about the results of the media recounts conducted in Florida:
Moore: And even if numerous independent investigations prove that Gore got the most votes --
Toobin: If there was a statewide recount, under every scenario, Gore won the election.
Moore: -- it won't matter just as long as all your daddy's friends on the Supreme Court vote the right way.
But the recount conducted by a consortium of media organizations found something quite different, as Newsday recently pointed out. If the statewide recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court had gone ahead, the consortium found that Bush would have won the election under two different scenarios: counting only "undervotes," or taking into account the reported intentions of some county electoral officials to include "overvotes" as well. During the CNN appearance from which Moore draws the clip, reporter Candy Crowley explained that Toobin's analysis assumed the statewide consideration of "overvotes," which was not a sure thing, though there are indications that Leon County Circuit Court judge Terry Lewis, who was supervising the recount, might have directed counties to consider them.
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Well what do ya know--right away he misrepresents the movie's claim in order to try refute it.
Once again, here is the quote from the movie:
Moore: And even if numerous independent investigations prove that Gore got the most votes --
Toobin: If there was a
statewide recount, under every scenario, Gore won the election.
And as we can see here, the claim is 100% factually accurate:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._pr...oject_recounts
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1115-02.htm
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/florida.html
http://www.failureisimpossible.com/n...idaballots.htm