<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV>The scales are falling from their eyes...</DIV> <DIV>CK</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 11.16.2000<FONT color=black face=arial size=+1><B></B></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=black face=arial size=+1><B></B></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=black face=arial size=+1><B>Florida fracas shakes voters' faith</B></DIV> <P><FONT color=black face=geneva,arial size=1>By <A href="mailto:kpruitt@ajc.com">Kathey Pruitt</A> and <A href="mailto:dtofig@ajc.com">Dana Tofig</A><BR>Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer</FONT> <P><FONT face=geneva,arial size=-1><FONT color=black face=geneva,arial size=-1>More than a week of counts, recounts and legal maneuvering -- but still no president -- have rattled metro Atlantans' faith in the nation's election system, a new poll shows. <P>Sixty percent of metro voters said the simmering dispute in Florida makes them less confident in the basic fairness of the way the country picks its top leaders, according to an Atlanta Journal-Constitution/WSB-TV poll released Wednesday. </P> <P><A href="http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/vote2000/decision/electpoll1116.html">http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/vote2000/decision/electpoll1116.html</A></P></FONT></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>