And, he said, the undervotes tended to disenfranchise the poor and minorities. One in 11 African Americans, he said, had apparently not had their votes for president counted.
The next day, the Miami-Dade canvassing board prepared to begin their recounts. What happened next is disputed.
After the board moved to a closed office to try and figure out how to go about counting nearly 654,000 ballots, a team of Republican operatives mobilized and protested, bringing to nationwide television a portrait of popular protest over closed-door meetings.
Then the committee voted 3-0 to abandon the recounts. 10,750 undervotes would remain untouched.
Campion received an immediate cell phone call from Nasvhille.
"What's going on?" he recalls the Gore team asking. (Baker interrupted to say that the question probably wasn't put so politely).
David Leahy, the Miami-Dade Supervisor of Elections and one of three members of the canvassing board, told The New York Times that day, "We simply can't get it done. There was this concern that we were not conducting an open, fair process."
"Basically, they didn't want to work Thanksgiving Day," is how Sasso sums up that argument.
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