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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — Chads were everywhere during Saturday's marathon vote recount, and it's not the night janitor who is upset; it's Republican lawyers. "Chads were seen on the floor during the process," Benjamin Ginsberg, general counsel for the Bush campaign, wrote this week to Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore. "This produces further evidence that mishandling of the ballots, not voter intent, potentially was yielding new votes." The question of whom the voter picked, Al Gore or George W. Bush, is of paramount concern, especially when a Bush vote might be nullified by an accidentally ...

UNFOLDING before us all is the biggest heist job since the O.J. Simpson jury stole justice. At the center of it all is "recount lady" Carol Roberts. Roberts, the 64-year-old county commissioner, would be in traction if she bent over backward any more for Al Gore. Yesterday morning she blithely told CNN: "I believe Al Gore won the county in the first place." Was this a belief or a holy war of hope? She has repeatedly claimed that the three-member canvassing committee - Theresa LePore, Chairman Judge Charles Burton and herself - is nonpartisan. Oh, she has a Gore bumper ...

THE theft of the presidency proceeds apace. A hand count of electoral returns has either begun or is about to begin in several heavily Democratic Florida counties - a shockingly subjective undertaking, front-end-loaded to deliver the Sunshine State, and thus the White House, to Vice President Al Gore. But before that happens, the veep and his high-powered sidekicks need to think long and hard about what they'll do with a presidency that would amount to stolen property. That is, a presidency devoid of moral authority to govern - a prescription for civil dissonance that will make the Clinton years seem ...

THE FBI is being asked to investigate how thousands of mainly black supporters of Al Gore were given ballot papers that had allegedly already been marked for rival candidates. Yesterday Democrat officials were examining claims that up to 17,000 ballot papers in the Miami area had been tampered with in what they described as “organised corruption”. Lawyers from across the United States descended on Miami and were busy taking statements from those complaining that they had been cheated or intimidated out of voting for Mr Gore. A senior Democrat official in Miami, who has hired a team of 20 investigators ...

Anyone who actually votes in Florida knows that Rep. Robert Wexler's claim that over 3,000 voters accidentally voted for Buchanan instead of Gore is at best a Gore-style exaggeration. More likely, it is a deliberate lie, calculated to cast a shadow over what is so far a calm, orderly, and by-the-book election recount. Truth be told, the mere fact that we can conduct this process without guns, tanks, and violence is proof positive that democracy is the ambrosia of all human political systems. First the facts. In Florida we vote with old-fashioned punch ballots. No fancy bells and whistles in ...

FLYNT TOLD TO 'PUT UP OR SHUT UP' ON BUSH 'ABORTION'; WOMAN DENIES PORN KING'S ALLEGATION Friends and family of a woman at the center of Larry Flynt’s investigation into Republican presidential hopeful George W. Bush blasted the porn king for spreading abortion allegations and challenged Flynt to ‘put up or shut up,’ the DRUDGE REPORT can reveal. "Mr. Flynt better start naming names!" demanded a close friend of the Texas woman at the center of the storm. "What is he afraid of? We all know this is a setup by desperate Gore supporters. Mr. Flynt will not go into ...

Park Forest, Illinois has found a unique way to show how tolerant they are relative to the rest of the country and their neighbors. With road signs!