On Charlie Rose, David Boies said the biggest debacle even exceeding the SCOTUS decision was to allow the “riot” to take place during the count at Palm Beach City Hall, which “shut down the count” (paraphrased)
IIRC, the “riot” was about 20 laughing and joking Bush supporters making some noise in the hallways, and they were quickly dispersed. I’m sure Boies knows these facts.
Yet he reiterated at the end of the show that “I’d have put more people on the streets” to counter and prevent the “riot”.
Actually, that “riot” was an action instigated by the democratic recount team, because they discovered that they had gotten about all the extra votes they were going to get.
They had started with the most democratic precincts, and their method of recounting was bound to increase the number of accepted ballots — which increased Gore’s lead.
But then they started in on a cuban precinct, and found that it increased Bush’s lead.
That’s when they claimed there was too much noise, and took the recount behind closed doors, a violation of the rules.
The republicans screamed about being shut out, certain that the democrats would use their new hidden status to change how they counted votes, making it more restrictive and limiting Bush’s gains.
And then they figured they could simply use the ensuing “riot” to claim they were afraid, and shut down the count — meaning no new votes for Bush.
They didn’t want to pick up the Broward count again after that.