NBC Nightly News - 2000-11-28 - 2 of 2

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[0:00] The Bush lawyers' claim requires states to have their election procedures in place before the voting begins.

[0:05] The Bush campaign says the Florida court violated that law when it set the new recount deadline.

[0:10] But Gore's lawyers argue the Bush team has it wrong.

[0:13] They claim tonight that the law simply says that if a state doesn't have its election procedures in place before the voting starts,

[0:20] then its state of electors is more open to challenge when Congress counts the electoral votes in January.

[0:25] Two constitutional scholars say the U.S. Supreme Court may like Gore's argument that the Florida court did nothing wrong.

[0:31] What the Florida court did was what every court does every day in this nation, including the Supreme Court,

[0:37] and that is to simply interpret ambiguous statutes and to try to give them meaning.

[0:41] I think it's a real stretch to say that the Florida Supreme Court usurped the role of the legislature and violated the Constitution.

[0:50] Even so, the Bush campaign asked the justices here to overturn the Florida state Supreme Court ruling,

[0:56] allow state election officials to certify the winner based on the results of two weeks ago,

[1:01] and provide what the Bush campaign calls legal finality.

[1:04] Tom?

[1:04] Thanks very much, NBC's Pete Williams tonight.

[1:07] Back in Florida, in a different courtroom in Tallahassee today, what could be a problem for the Bush team?

[1:13] Those Seminole County absentee ballot applications.

[1:16] Thousands were discarded because they were incomplete, but then Republican workers were allowed to fill them out, and they were accepted.

[1:24] A local Democrat has sued, saying that was illegal, and the judge in the case is not regarded as Bush-friendly.

[1:32] NBC's Kelly O'Donnell has more tonight.

[1:35] A backroom at the elections board in Seminole County.

[1:38] What happened here in late October, some observers say, could swing the election to Al Gore.

[1:44] Allegations of Republican tampering with applications for absentee ballots.

[1:49] A case filed by an Orlando citizen, lawyer and Democrat Harry Jacobs, not the Gore legal team, set for trial next week.

[1:57] A lawsuit described by one professor as Gore's strongest case.

[2:01] I think that this is his last best chance to salvage the election.

[2:05] The charge? The two Republican operatives were given access to more than 4,000 applications for absentee ballots,

[2:13] already rejected by the election supervisor, a Republican, because they were missing critical information.

[2:19] But that same supervisor allowed the Republican Party aides to correct the applications, adding information, voter ID numbers.

[2:27] Once the forms were changed, ballots were mailed out.

[2:30] They were put in a room with lots of ballot materials and told,

[2:35] go ahead and do whatever you want to do with regard to altering the absentee ballot application.

[2:41] Republicans say they were only correcting a printing error, a mistake that left no space for the required voter ID.

[2:47] I would call this ministerial issue the height of technicality under Florida law.

[2:55] A law passed two years ago, a crackdown on absentee voter fraud.

[2:59] It states, an application can only be made by the elector, a member of the elector's immediate family, or the elector's legal guardian.

[3:07] Republican Supervisor Sandy Gord defended her actions last week.

[3:11] I had no concern.

[3:13] If it had been anyone else and they had made the same request,

[3:17] I believe I would have made the same decision.

[3:20] We'll provide you with a chair.

[3:23] If successful, Democrats will ask the judge to throw out as many as 15,000 ballots.

[3:28] Now, some Republicans admit worrying about Judge Nikki Ann Clark,

[3:32] a Democrat who within the last month was nominated for a place on the Florida Appeals Court,

[3:36] but not selected.

[3:38] That decision made by Governor Jeb Bush.

[3:40] Tom?

[3:41] Thanks very much, NBC's Kelly O'Donnell tonight.

[3:43] As for the candidates, they were taking markedly different approaches to this day,

[3:48] one in Washington, the other in Austin, Texas.

[3:51] NBC's David Gregory is in Austin again tonight.

[3:54] Claire Shipman remains in Washington.

[3:55] Claire, we'll begin with you, please.

[3:56] Tom, last week the consensus among Gore's advisers,

[4:00] Gore should lie low,

[4:01] but this week we're going to see the vice president every day.

[4:04] His team has concluded with Bush's certification,

[4:08] Al Gore is the best person to make his own case.

[4:11] Trying to keep the public engaged in his struggle for the presidency,

[4:15] for the second time in two days,

[4:17] Gore brings reporters in on what would have normally been a private session.

[4:20] Today, a meeting with Treasury Secretary Larry Summers,

[4:23] who would likely keep that post in a Gore administration.

[4:26] He then takes the opportunity to make his case again to the public.

[4:30] I believe this is a time to count every vote and not to run out the clock.

[4:35] This is not a time for delay, obstruction, and procedural roadblocks.

[4:41] But when confronted by questions about poll numbers that show his public support dropping,

[4:46] Gore also argues that might not matter.

[4:49] I'm quite sure that the polls don't matter in this because it's a legal question.

[4:54] And the principle, again, is a very simple one.

[4:58] When people cast votes, the votes should be counted.

[5:04] Now, while Gore was in public, his team behind the scenes was reaching out to the nation's Democratic governors,

[5:10] trying to get them on board.

[5:11] But despite this PR effort, the political effort here in Washington and Florida,

[5:16] one top advisor said tonight,

[5:17] we feel like we're trying to play beat the clock with the deck stacked against us.

[5:21] Tom.

[5:24] Thanks very much, NBC's Claire Shipman tonight.

[5:26] NBC's David Gregory joins me now from his post in Austin, Texas,

[5:30] to look at how George W. Bush spent another day getting ready to become the next president.

[5:35] David?

[5:36] Well, Tom, the Bush team tonight finds itself in the difficult position of running on parallel tracks,

[5:42] accelerating its transition planning while at the same time remaining hunkered down in campaign mode,

[5:47] lashing out at the vice president tonight because he won't step aside.

[5:53] Even as the Texas governor prepares to unveil the top tier of a White House foreign policy team by next week,

[5:59] his spokeswoman today blasts Sal Gore for contesting Bush's victory and demanding more time for recounts.

[6:06] Now, regrettably, it appears that the vice president wants to go back and change the rules after the counting is over.

[6:15] Though today Bush acts like a head of state,

[6:18] calling Mexico's leader Vincente Fox in advance of his inauguration,

[6:22] it's clear Bush does not yet truly consider himself the president-elect.

[6:26] They say he will only resign as governor at the, quote, appropriate time.

[6:30] Even so, the Bush team will now receive more cooperation from the Clinton administration for a transition.

[6:36] White House Chief of Staff John Podesta tells Bush advisor Andrew Card,

[6:39] the Texas governor's team will, by next week, start receiving daily intelligence briefings.

[6:45] Podesta and Card also discuss starting FBI background checks for Bush appointees.

[6:50] Senior advisors say the first appointments Bush is expected to make will be his foreign policy team,

[6:55] including Colin Powell, the Secretary of State,

[6:58] and Condoleezza Rice, his National Security Advisor,

[7:02] though Republican sources say Powell does not want to be named before the legal wrangling is resolved.

[7:09] And we've learned that tonight the transition team headed by Dick Cheney is zeroing in on office space in McLean, Virginia.

[7:15] That would be privately funded, of course.

[7:18] McLean just outside Washington, D.C.

[7:20] That'll be for the transition team, and it's expected to be up and running by early next week, if not before.

[7:25] And tonight, Republican sources say it is Cheney who is personally beginning the delicate process

[7:30] of reaching out to congressional Democrats in a very important effort to build a consensus

[7:36] should, in fact, Bush become the president.

[7:38] Tom?

[7:39] Thanks very much, NBC's David Gregory tonight.

[7:41] One of the central issues of Al Gore's contest of the Florida election

[7:45] involved thousands of ballots in Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties

[7:49] that showed no vote for president in either the election night machine count or the automatic recount.

[7:54] The election of professionals call these ballots undervotes.

[7:58] And as NBC Jim Avila tells us tonight, they are not very unusual, especially with punch card ballots.

[8:08] Precinct 237, Miami-Dade County.

[8:11] Ground zero in the Gore campaign search for discarded votes.

[8:15] More than 5% of the ballots here, say Democrats, are in the drawer marked no vote for president.

[8:20] Rejected.

[8:21] My card wouldn't go down in a slot.

[8:23] Election officials call that an undervote.

[8:26] Beverly Jones calls it a shame.

[8:28] If it didn't count, I would be very sad because I voted for Al Gore.

[8:34] Statewide in Florida, an estimated 180,000 rejected ballots.

[8:38] Most of them undervotes.

[8:40] Some of them double votes.

[8:42] 10,000 rejected in Miami-Dade alone.

[8:46] As high as 1 in 20 votes in some South Florida precincts.

[8:50] No surprise to election officials across America.

[8:53] 2 million discarded votes nationwide.

[8:56] Uncounted because of voter or machine error this election.

[8:59] On the issue of the discarded ballots, it would be highly desirable if by the year 2004, we did not have punch cards.

[9:08] In fact, election officials in Chicago, home to Gore campaign manager Bill Daley, tossed out more than 72,000 punch card ballots.

[9:17] 7%, twice the 1996 number, highest in the nation.

[9:21] It's something that happens every election, and it happens in every jurisdiction that uses a punch card.

[9:25] It's the dirty little secret of American politics.

[9:28] Discarded ballots.

[9:29] Normally, they don't matter much, but the closeness of this election explains the ballot counters mantra.

[9:35] We don't care who wins, just make it a landslide.

[9:39] Republicans say recounting Miami-Dade's rejected ballots unfairly tilts the election toward Gore,

[9:44] insisting the number of no-vote ballots is no higher here than in the rest of the country.

[9:49] We see voters that go in and actually pick up a ballot, walk into the voting booth, vote for nobody, walk back out, and turn the ballot in.

[9:59] More than 100 million Americans went to the polls November 7th.

[10:02] Each ballot important, but with 2 million rejected, not every vote counted.

[10:07] Jim Avila, NBC News, Miami.

[10:11] Then, there's the under-vote controversy across the country, in New Mexico as well.

[10:15] State officials did not certify the vote as planned tonight because Republicans say a 10% under-vote in a heavily Republican county needs to be investigated.

[10:25] Statewide, Gore ended up ahead of Bush by 486 votes out of almost 580,000 casts.

[10:33] Al Gore was declared the winner in Oregon today by almost 7,000 votes.

[10:38] That's a margin too large to warrant an automatic recount.

[10:41] And a reminder in Washington today that someone will be in front of the Capitol taking the oath of office on January 20th.

[10:48] Who we don't know, but workers have started preliminary construction on the inaugural viewing stands.

[10:55] Up next, this country's biggest auto insurance company changing the rules on rates.

[11:00] But some say it's not fair.

[11:03] Bigger, more expensive cars will get a discount,

[11:06] and people who used to get a discount with small cars with airbags will lose it.

[11:11] Giving an insurance rate break to the big SUVs isn't a fair deal for everyone else.

[11:16] And the fleecing of America.

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[13:56] A major ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court today limiting police power by a 6-3 vote.

[14:02] The court ruled that police cannot set up roadblocks to randomly search cars for drugs

[14:07] when there is no suspicion that the driver is involved in illegal activity.

[14:12] The court said such roadblocks violate the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable searches.

[14:17] But the justices did support other kinds of checkpoints, such as those looking for drunk drivers

[14:23] because they serve the specific purpose of keeping highways safer.

[14:27] There's also news tonight that could determine how much you pay for car insurance,

[14:30] especially if you drive one of those big sport utility vehicles.

[14:34] But the changes might make driving even more dangerous and expensive for everyone else.

[14:40] Here's NBC's Robert Hager.

[14:43] State Farm, the nation's largest auto insurer, announces new discounts on policies and other companies may follow.

[14:49] Up to $50 a year off for vehicles found safest for occupants

[14:54] and insurance hikes for those it finds least safe.

[14:57] But because many that get the new discounts are big SUVs or vans or pickups,

[15:01] the move draws fire from consumer groups.

[15:04] They say the discounts offer incentives to buy big gas guzzlers that are bad for the environment.

[15:09] And while the big cars may be safest for their own occupants,

[15:13] critics charge they're not safest for those in smaller vehicles hit by a big one.

[15:17] So the Consumer Federation's Robert Hunter doesn't like the discounting.

[15:21] It's unfair because it gives a discount for the damage big cars have within the vehicle, which is less,

[15:27] but they don't surcharge for the damage they cause to other vehicles.

[15:31] It's unfair because when an engine gets hit, people get hit.

[15:42] It says it's a truck and a vehicle insured.

[15:54] The rate cuts are based on the safety record, not size.

[15:58] The Ford Excursion, for instance, is the biggest SUV, yet it gets the lowest safety discount.

[16:04] All this comes at a time when big cars, in fact all cars, suddenly aren't selling as well.

[16:09] What about next year?

[16:10] If you're comparing 2001 to 2000, we're looking for a downward trend, about a 3% to 3.5% trend downward.

[16:20] So automakers are offering new incentives, too, now to lure back buyers of big cars.

[16:25] The very ones insurers are also now courting.

[16:28] Robert Hager, NBC News, Washington.

[16:31] And another kind of election drama is taking place in Israel, where there was an unexpected turn today.

[16:37] Today, Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to his opponent's demands for early elections,

[16:42] which could sweep his government out of power.

[16:45] He's been weakened by renewed fighting with the Palestinians over the past two months.

[16:49] The elections are expected sometime in the spring.

[16:52] On Wall Street today, high-tech stocks took a beating amid fears that the economy could be slowing down.

[16:57] As a result, the Dow closed down more than 38 points.

[17:01] NASDAQ lost over 145 points for its lowest close all year long.

[17:07] I'll be right back with Fleecing of America.

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[24:15] A NEW STUDY

[24:16] AGREES

[24:16] ALSO THE OFFER

[24:18] DESIGNED TO LURE

[24:18] THE BEAVERS

[24:19] COACHED

[24:19] DENNIS ERICKSON

[24:20] AWAY FROM

[24:21] CORVALES

[24:21] DID IT WORK

[24:23] THE NEWS

[24:23] STARTS NOW

[24:26] FROM KGW

[24:27] WHERE THE NEWS

[24:28] COMES FIRST

[24:29] THIS IS

[24:30] NORTHWEST NEWS

[24:31] CHANNEL 8

[24:32] AT 6

[24:34] HELLO I'M

[24:35] JOE DONLIN

[24:35] AND I'M

[24:36] TRACY BERRY

[24:36] THANKS FOR

[24:37] BEING WITH US

[24:37] OUR TOP STORY

[24:38] TONIGHT

[24:38] SO YOU PAY

[24:39] YOUR TAXES

[24:40] AND STILL

[24:40] YOU DON'T

[24:41] HAVE A PAVED

[24:42] ROAD

[24:42] IN FRONT

[24:43] OF YOUR HOUSE

[24:43] IT'S HAPPENING

[24:44] ON 600 MILES

[24:46] OF NEIGHBORHOOD

[24:46] STREETS

[24:47] IN PORTLAND

[24:47] NEWS CHANNEL 8

[24:48] RANDY NEVS

[24:49] IS LIVE

[24:49] IN SOUTHWEST

[24:50] PORTLAND

[24:50] TO EXPLAIN

[24:50] WHY IT'S

[24:51] TAKING SO

[24:51] LONG TO FIX

[24:52] THIS PROBLEM

[24:53] RANDY

[24:53] YEAH WELL TRACY

[24:54] PAYING TO HAVE

[24:54] YOUR ROAD PAVED

[24:55] HAS ALWAYS BEEN

[24:56] THE CITIZENS

[24:57] RESPONSIBILITY

[24:57] NOW THE CITY'S

[24:58] STREET DEPARTMENT

[24:59] SAYS IT WANTS

[25:00] TO HELP OUT

[25:00] BUT UNLESS

[25:01] THE CITY COUNCIL

[25:02] COMES UP

[25:02] WITH FUNDING

[25:03] A ROAD LIKE

[25:04] THIS HERE

[25:04] IN SOUTHWEST

[25:05] PORTLAND

[25:05] COULD BE ALL

[25:06] DIRT GRAVEL

[25:07] AND MUD PUDDLES

[25:07] FOR THE NEXT

[25:08] HUNDRED YEARS

[25:10] EVERY DAY

[25:11] THE ROAD TO

[25:12] GREG OLSON'S HOUSE

[25:13] IS UNPAVED

[25:15] THE KIDS CAN'T

[25:16] GO OUT

[25:16] AND UTILIZE

[25:17] THE STREET

[25:18] OR THE SIDEWALK

[25:19] 14 YEARS

[25:20] OF BUMPING

[25:21] BOUNCING

[25:21] WEAVING

[25:22] DODGING

[25:22] AND FRUSTRATION

[25:24] EVERY DAY

[25:24] IN DRIVING

[25:25] OVER THIS

[25:25] WE HAVE TO GO

[25:27] VERY SLOW

[25:27] AND CAUTIOUS

[25:28] SO AS TO

[25:29] AVOID

[25:29] THE DEEPEST

[25:30] POT HOLES

[25:31] THANK YOU

[25:31] SO MUCH