Recount Quotes

You would have to show that your vote is diluted by recounting. That seems unlikely given all the recounting there has been in the past. - Douglas Kmiec

You can't have a law that says you have to have all votes in at 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon and then another law that allows you to have a hand recount that obviously is going to take more than just 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. They're in conflict, so a court I think has to resolve that conflict. - John Breaux

When alien abductees recount to me their stories, I do not deny that they had a real experience. - Michael Shermer

What we are confident of is that there will be even more changes in these numbers in the recount [from totals of the past 20 days] because the numbers are close and we know from past experience that electoral processes, while they are filled with integrity are also filled with human error. - Larry Framme

What the sense seems to be is that somehow Gov. Bush's campaign should be protected from Gov. Bush's lawyers, if they didn't ask for a recount, and therefore there should be recount anyway, even if they didn't ask for it. - David Boies

We've had September 11th, the Gore-Bush recount, a war in Iraq, a war in Afghanistan, Hurricane Katrina. How can you not care about who's laying the country out for you? This is the time of life you get to question things. You should always think for yourself and speak out. - Adam Morrison

We've had a series of major news stories that have brought in viewers who either were sampling to see what else was available or were normal news watchers. The Florida recount and the end of the election was a huge development. And then 9-11 came along. - Brit Hume

We're now going to have a legal battle on the recounting of the contested ballots, so I expect the uncertainty to continue. - Roberto D'Altimonte

We're in the process of converting to the electronic voting, and we need our best people. We've moved them from any responsibility of recount or responsibility of ballots. - Bob Bennett