strange operations

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Jan 17 14:24:10 PST 2001


[from another list...]

Below is an excerpt from the transcript of CNN's "The Point With Greta Van Susteren" (Aired January 15, 2001) Van Susteren is interviewing Mark Seibel of the "Miami Herald", which is part of the media consortium conducting a review of the under votes and over votes in all of Florida's 67 counties.

VAN SUSTEREN: What about the equipment? Is there any truth or have you found any evidence to support -- at least some people said the poorer equipment went to some of these poorer areas -- is that true or false?

SEIBEL: Well, what we did find in Miami-Dade County was in the two precincts, the highest discard rates, and those were predominantly black precincts -- that on the morning of election day, 15 minutes before the polls opened, the poll workers had run test ballots through the machines, and of the 20 machines in those two precincts, 13 of them failed to register votes, either in the presidential column or elsewhere on the ballot.

http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0101/15/tpt.00.html



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