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• Thursday, May 22, 2008 08:15 PM

  Mr. Kamiya makes a fundamental error

  Mr. Kamiya writes "The Gore team decided not to ask for a statewide manual recount" and in so doing shows that he is not well informed on what happened in Florida in 2000.

  Florida law (at least at that time) made no provision for asking for statewide manual recounts. None. The provision of the law required that recount requests be made county by county and that a sampling of ballots be taken to determine whether or not a recount was likely to alter the vote totals significantly. That's why the Gore team chose the counties that it did.

  Further, the Gore team did in fact propose that there be a statewide recount of all ballots but given that the state law didn't provide for such a thing, it would have required the Bush campaign's agreement (which was not something that the Bush campaign was about to provide.)

  Anyway, other than the fundamental error about asking for statewide recounts that were not available (and hence were not asked for but which the Florida State Supreme Court eventually ordered), the article/review isn't entirely awful. But that glaring error? Come on! There has been plenty of time to get this info right.

  —Roman Berry Read Roman Berry's other letters
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