The Palm Beach Ballots Made For The 2000 Election Showed A Troubling Pattern: Many Cards Showed Clusters Of Hanging Chads- Primarily In The Column That Contained The Presidential Candidates.
The Pattern Was Clearer In Some Precincts Than Others. It's The Morning After The Election In 2000? You Turned On The Television, You Turned On The Radio And You Saw And Heard About The Mess In Florida. Tell Me What You Thought. Let's Start Over With You. What'd You Think? Oh, Man. Somebody Blew It Bad And I Bet It Was Us. Well, I-- I Knew It Was Us And-- I Didn't Expect Anything Less Than Fiascos. Because You Knew You Were Dealing With Bad Paper. Because We Were Dealing With Bad Paper And Old Tooling. I Get A Phone Call. And It's-- The First One Was From My Wife. She Goes, "what You Guys Do?" I Go, "what Happened?" She Goes, "the Ballots Are Bad In Florida. Palm Beach." So, Then, I Hang Up And Then The Next Person Calls Me Is My Boss Jim Johnson And He Tells Me, "we Blew It. The Ballots Are Bad In Florida. It's All Over The News And When You Got To The Plant In The Days After The Election, What Was The Scene There? It Was Chaotic. They Were Moving Stuff, Hiding Stuff, Get Rid Of This. Hiding Stuff? Yeah, Because The News People Wanted To Come In And Talk To People And They Wanted To Tour The Plant.
We Were Told To Get Rid Of Everything, Anything That Had Florida On It Had To Disappear And Did It Disappear? Yes. Nothing With Any Kind Of Boise Cascade Labels Was Supposed To Be Left Around. And That Word Came From Whom? Brian Lehrman. Who Was? The Plant Manager. We Repeatedly Invited Sequoia To Have Brian Lehrman On Camera To Answer Some Of The Workers Allegations Sequoia Declined What Do You Think Happened? My Own Personal Opinion Was The Touch Screen Voting System Wasn't Getting Off The Ground Like That They-- Like They Would Hope. And Because They Weren't Having Any Problems With Paper Ballots. So, I Feel Like They-- Deliberately Did All This To Have Problems With The Paper Ballots So The Electronically Voting Systems Would Get Off The Ground -and Which It Did In A Big Way.
