Chapter 1416

"No... no, what does it mean to take back the call?"

Song ya, who didn't sleep well until three o'clock in the morning, got up and asked, "can you go back on what you have admitted?"

"Literally, Gore announced that he had withdrawn the victory congratulation call he had made to George Jr. and canceled the speech because, according to the current counting trend in Florida, the difference between the number of votes he and George Jr. must be within 0.5% of the total of nearly six million votes. According to the Florida election law, if the difference between the two candidates is less than 0.5%, the subordinate County election committees must automatically recalculate their votes. "

Sloan replied: "if a candidate or voter still does not approve of the recount result, he or she can recount the vote within five days after the election or before the election result is reported to the office of the Secretary of state. Candidates and political parties also have the right to ask for manual counting within 72 hours after the end of the general election, and the election committee of each county in Florida will decide whether to accept it or not. "

"Ha

Song Ya was not too happy to watch the excitement, "in a word, we will not give up this time, right?"

"I'm kidding. The leadership of the only superpower in the next four years is decided by thousands of votes in Florida?"

Sloan replied: "Gore, who is so fond of feathers, would not hesitate to give up his demeanor and take back the call to admit defeat. At least the opinion of the donkey party election committee must be unified. If Gore completes his anti super campaign before the end of the vote counting, the elephant party will never do it. They have made a lot of small moves in Florida. "

"Little action?"

Song Ya turned on the TV set according to Sloan's instructions. During the sleep time, all media and major news agencies all over the world rushed to Florida. ACN station also set up a broadcasting car outside an election office in Florida, where the counting of votes is still in progress. The reporters in front of him broadcast the latest progress on the spot.

At the same time, some media inclined to the donkey party began to hype the butterfly vote in Florida. The so-called butterfly vote is a kind of design that arranges the candidates' names in order, which is a bit like butterfly wings.

"I... I thought Gore would be on little George's right, so I punched a hole there, but after voting, my daughter told me that it was Buchanan..."

A local white woman is being interviewed by Cuu, "so are you sure you voted for Buchanan, not Gore?" Cuu reporter asked.

"Yes, I'm sure." The white woman nodded.

"You wanted to vote for Gore."

"Yes."

"Do you think there will be as many wrong voters as you?"

"There must be a lot. You know old people of my age..."

Cuu then gave a picture of Florida's butterfly vote. The first one on the left was George, and on the right was not Al Gore, but independent candidate Buchanan. The remaining candidates of the two parties are staggered. If the voters who do not pay attention punch holes according to their experience, they are really easy to make mistakes.

"Whoa, whoa..." Sonya thought it was more interesting. "Sure enough, the Georgians in Florida are playing tricks, but this is allowed by the rules, right?" He asked Sloan.

"Yes, George's younger brother is the governor. The party controls the state government and Parliament. The vote is designed deliberately, but it is not against the law."

Sloan replied: "in fact, both parties have similar operations in each state this year... But even if one thousandth of the six million voters make a mistake, it is six thousand votes, which is enough to completely turn the election situation around."

"You know, aplus, it reminds me of gambling on horses..."

When Song Ya returned to ACN, the counting of votes in Florida continued. Now the whole rice and the whole world are watching hundreds of hundreds of slow votes. The two candidates make complaints about the horse race that has been going hand in hand. Littmann has been staring at the Tucao for a long time in the hall.

"Gore should not be enough."

In the afternoon, Gore fell behind only 2000 votes from 29000 when he called to admit defeat, but Sloan made a judgment based on the data.

Sure enough, when all 67 counties in Florida finished counting, both candidates got more than 2.9 million votes, and gore lost only 1784.

"The gap is less than 0.03 percent! Florida must start a recount! " On the whole, ACN mostly supported donkey party, and the people in the hall cheered.

"If the machine counts the votes automatically, it's the same as putting the votes in the machine again. Isn't the result the same?" Song Ya was puzzled.

"Everyone is not willing to admit defeat. Then we should do everything we can to fight all kinds of offensive and defensive battles. Learn more." Sloan said.

"Boss." Song Zecheng caught up with ACN and asked song Ya out of the hall, "John Liu."

It turned out that his friends from the elephant party began to find him.

"Hey, John."

When song Ya took over the mobile phone, his original mood of enjoying himself was gone. He realized that now the two parties are going to play for real. As a media tycoon who controls ACN, he is about to face pressure from both sides.

"Congratulations, aplus, how many 24-hour news stations have reached their peak ratings during this election?" John Liu begins with this sentence.

"Yes, but our audience is still small... Compared with big stations like Cuu and FoxNews." Song Ya replied.

"Haha, naturally, Gore is too ungracious this time. We try our best to be restrained now, but it doesn't mean that we will always indulge the donkey Party's unreasonable making trouble. Our common friends very much hope that the media can hold a neutral position and don't dance with the donkey Party's propaganda machine." Said John Liu.

The common friend... Should refer to deputy commander candidate Cheney. Songya also donated some money to Cheney through his company. Of course, it's not as good as that to gore. "I understand. Don't you want to recount the votes now?" He pretended to be stupid.

"Well, judging from the situation, the donkey party will not necessarily accept the result of the recount. After all, they have swallowed up all the phone calls that admit defeat." Said John Liu.

Although he supports Gore, it's obvious that we have to consider the possibility of George's return in the next four years. After all, little George is ahead by more than 1000 votes. Moreover, Florida is his home territory. No matter how it is calculated, little George's winning probability is much higher. "OK, I'll remind them to pay attention, and we'll contact them later?" Sonya won't risk offending John Liu and Cheney.

“OK。” John Liu hangs up.

When song Ya returned to the hall, ACN was already broadcasting that the elite legal teams sent by the two parties had arrived in Florida and began to prepare for the subsequent legal war.

"Aplus, we need more money."

That night, Gore's campaign manager, the younger brother of Chicago Mayor Daley Jr., called to raise money for the subsequent surge in extra expenses.

In general, the budget of the candidate's general election is only until the end of the election, and he will try to spend every penny before that. Anyway, it's all raised. Whether it's small donations from ordinary people or contributions from tycoons and big enterprises, the expectation of throwing money is nothing more than to support the candidate to win the election, and it's meaningless to save a cent after the election.

"Not waiting for the recount?"

Songya didn't want to give it so easily. Al Gore's great advantage can also be achieved like this. It's a fake to say that there is no resentment at all. He has the feeling of spending money to get lost.

"But not until then." Said little Daly's brother.

"Mr Deputy Commander, is it convenient to have a chat with me?" Song Ya asked again.

"He's very busy now..."

"Call me." Little Daly's brother was still talking. A voice asked him for the microphone. "Aplus, I'm Warren Christopher..."

"Mr. Secretary of state."

Warren Christopher is a former Secretary of state of the United States, a top bureaucrat of the donkey party, and an evergreen in the political arena. He has presided over trade negotiations with Japan since the Kennedy administration. Sonya said hello.

"I'll take care of this Florida problem." Warren Christopher said, "first of all, I'd like to thank you for your long-term support for deputy commander Gore, but... This is not the time to talk nonsense. We need money as soon as possible."

"All right, all right."

Song Ya had to promise, "but I didn't expect this to happen, so I didn't prepare. Which side is better to transfer the money from?" Warren Christopher, the top bureaucrat, should have planned everything. He just asked.

"Hollywood?" Sure enough.

"OK, let little Daley's brother find jeremov. I'll give him a call."

"Thank you." Warren Christopher hung up in a hurry.

"It seems that this is not Gore's business..." Songya told yelemov to prepare another million and then returned to the hall to say to Sloan.

"Nonsense, it's related to four or eight years in power. All those who covet to get a job in the new government are eager to wait. Is it possible to make everyone hungry for eight years like the party now?" Sloan rolled his eyes.

"Warren Christopher, former Secretary of state of the donkey party, arrived in Florida, while James Becker, former Secretary of state of the elephant party, was also sent to Florida. The two sides assembled a legal team that is most proficient in electoral law in the whole rice..." a reporter from ACN station was reporting.

On November 9, 2000, the donkey party started a lawsuit against butterfly ballots in Palm Beach County, Florida. At the same time, eight indictments were submitted to Palm Beach County Court. At the same time, the donkey party in the county and several other counties put forward the demand of manual counting again.

On November 10, 2000, Florida's recount was completed, and George Jr. remained nominally dominant, but the gap between the two sides had narrowed to 327.

It's impossible for the donkey party to admit defeat. Warren Christopher's team has discovered the existence of "overseas votes".

November 17 is the deadline for overseas voters in Florida to send their ballots by mail. However, obviously, it can't catch up with the end of the general election. Therefore, the local election committee staff will help overseas voters fill in missing information, such as voter registration number, in advance, which is against the rules. They can even help fill in the mark. It's too easy to do fake ticket washing, But in the two counties controlled by the elephant party, George Jr. won nearly 10000 overseas votes over Gore

"The Georgians have absolutely washed the tickets. I can't imagine they can resist the temptation."

On November 12, the media of the whole rice had been quarreling. Peter, who had just recovered, appeared on the golf course. He looked far away and said, "but just because of this, the elephant party will never accept defeat, and the end of losing will not be good. And gore... I see through him. He can't stand the pressure of playing games with the Georges. "

"Now it looks like Warren Christopher, the former Secretary of state, has taken over the command." Songya comforted Peter and comforted himself, "he has done very well, and we also have the advantage of public opinion."

"The laws and regulations related to the election are extremely complicated. Take Florida as an example, the Secretary of state plays an important role in the election process and has great power. The Secretary of state himself is like a member of the George Dynasty, and so are the state government and Parliament. This is tantamount to supervising himself."

Peter yimenqing, who just took part in the general election this year, said: "of course, the donkey party controls the procuratorial system in Florida, and the attorney general is a member of the donkey party. At the same time, in the very important county election committees, the donkey party controls most counties in southern Florida, and other local elephant parties have advantages. At the court level, there are more donkey party judges in the Supreme Court of Florida, and the number of Supreme Court justices nominated by elephant party is absolutely dominant... "

"That's an example of how oversight works, isn't it?" Song Ya asked, "there's no way to cover the sky on either side."

"Ha ha..."

Peter laughed scornfully. "It looks like this, but there are countless loopholes in the actual operation. You'll wait and see."

This time, he became a prophet, and Sloan's call came to Sonya's mobile phone, "little George's camp has just applied to the Florida federal district court to stop the manual counting of votes in Palm Beach County!"

"No... no counting?" Song Ya Leng, "so quickly play Lai lift table?"

"But they can't win. Florida's federal district court system is under our control." Sloan said triumphantly.

That's not the problem. Hello“ The judge may not be as we wish, will he? " Song ya

"Hehe, everyone has butt, don't they?" Sloan said with a smile, "this is the time."

"As I just said, now we have entered a simple difference that seems to have a law to follow, but the final result will only depend on which side of a group is sitting, and the vast majority of these people are not elected." Said Peter.

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