Election Night 2008 - Dan Rather Reports (HDNet) - 2 of 3
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[0:00] judges are not speaking. That is not the
[0:01] way to decide elections.
[0:03] >> Well, George Lemieux in Florida, which
[0:05] certainly had its election problems
[0:07] going back at least to 2000. And
[0:10] Governor Chris, with whom you worked
[0:12] with, has taken a lead in saying uh a
[0:16] version of whoo, we're not going to get
[0:18] carried away with all this technology.
[0:20] We're going to go back to basics. Uh has
[0:24] it or has it not occurred to you today
[0:25] and seeing these long lines where some
[0:27] people stood in line eight or nine hours
[0:30] to vote and still having a lot of
[0:33] difficulty with electronic voting
[0:35] machines whether they're optical scan or
[0:37] otherwise? Uh is it or is it not time
[0:40] for a national effort on the federal
[0:42] level to say we have to get a grip on
[0:45] election day or is it just the way it's
[0:47] going to go in a big continental country
[0:48] such as ours? Well, I'm a big believer
[0:51] in trying to make uniform elections
[0:53] across the country. It makes a lot of
[0:54] sense. Uh, as you said, Governor Christ
[0:56] has really tried to get us back to a
[0:58] place where there is a paper record,
[1:00] where there would not be doubt about
[1:01] voting. He extended the uh, voting
[1:04] hours, which was some folks in the
[1:06] Republican party weren't very happy
[1:07] about, but he thought he had an
[1:09] obligation as governor to serve the
[1:10] citizens and to extend the voting hours,
[1:12] which based upon this kind of record
[1:14] possible record turnout we've had, I
[1:16] think was a very good idea. But we need
[1:18] to do everything we can to encourage
[1:20] people to vote and accommodate them when
[1:21] they do vote and make sure that we