Excerpt from Miami Herald:
A lawyer for the Bush campaign said the GOP will not stand in the way of the media's inspection of the ballots.  ``We don't have any concern,'' said Miami attorney Mark Wallace. ``The law says they are open to the public.''

Published Friday, December 15, 2000, in the Miami Herald by JAY WEAVER
 
 

Excerpt from Orlando Sentinel following release of Lake County results:

Bush spokesman Tucker Eskew said the Sentinel was engaged in "mischief making" by treating "illegal votes" as legal votes....
"To publish illegal votes as legal votes would be to  mislead the readers and the public," Eskew said. "These are illegal votes, and your paper is publishing them as legal votes."

And ballots exactly like those rejected in Lake -- and now called "illegal" by Eskew -- were counted by canvassing boards in places such as Orange and Seminole counties and are now part of the certified totals.

http://orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-recount-12192000-story.story?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines

David Damron, Ramsey Campbell and Roger Roy of the Sentinel Staff

For more about how these ballots were counted as legal in other counties, click here.