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Klayman: 'What a Mess'

Christopher Ruddy Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2000

"What a mess,” Larry Klayman, chairman of Judicial Watch, said after a
day of reviewing thousands of ballots here in West Palm Beach.

Klayman’s public interest law firm has taken the baton and begun its own
independent account of the Palm Beach vote.

Fla. judge Jorge Labarga ordered Palm Beach county officials to open up
the ballots for Judicial Watch’s inspection this past Monday. Election
officials stymied Judicial Watch, but allowed the group on Tuesday to
begin reviewing the ballots.

On Wednesday morning, Klayman returned to Labarga and asked the judge to
hold the elections office in contempt for failing to allow his timely
recount, and to waive undue expenses.
Palm Beach is attempting to assess Klayman $1,152 an hour to do his
recount.

Judicial Watch hired the Washington-based auditing firm of Johnson
Lambert & Co. to review the counts. Johnson Lambert specializes in
vote fraud.

After Tuesday’s count, Klayman joined NewsMax.com at its headquarters
for an exclusive interview.

He detailed massive irregularities in the count. Klayman’s auditors
have only reviewed a few thousand of the ballots, focusing their efforts
on the disputed ballots that had been set aside by the canvassing board
in their final recount.

These ballots were not included in the final count because they had a
single dimple for president. The canvassing board only accepted ballots
with multiple dimples.

The Gore campaign is anxious to have these votes included. It believes
it will have a 840 net gain of votes for Gore if these are included.

Klayman has not done a recount of these but he said he observed a "lot
of Gore votes. They have very discernible impressions or dimples,” he
said.

"But it may be impossible to find out what really happened in the vote,”
Klayman said, expressing shock at the condition of the ballots. "These
things look like they have been in World War II.”

According to his independent auditors, Klayman said ballots reviewed so
far shows four areas of irregularities and possible fraud:

The hand counts do not reconcile with the machine counts.

Election officials used "pink ballots” – replacement ballots for paper
ballots they said were destroyed by the machine. This allowed officials
to fill out the ballot for the destroyed ballots.

The canvassing board had no clear methodology when conducting the
recount

Record keeping was so bad, there is no record of who the canvassing
committee awarded votes to from each of the questionable ballots.

Klayman said his organization plans to continue their efforts to
identify vote fraud even if the Electoral College meets and declares a
winner.

"We believe the American people need to know what happened here, and if
vote fraud occurred, we need to hold those involved accountable,” he
said.


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