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The Legacy of the Last Florida Recount

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Rick Hasen, founder of the Election Law Blog, explains how we got here: Shrinking away from the hard election reforms, ignoring the easy reforms, and enacting short-sighted remedies. Hasen is a professor at UC Irvine and a Slate contributor.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

24 million votes.

0:03.0

Think about the vast apparatus of humans and machines.

0:06.4

It's going to take to recount 24 million votes by Thursday.

0:11.8

The recounting begins. It is official.

0:14.2

Next deadline, Thursday. You say you're good.

0:17.2

I say that all the resources we have are being put to bear

0:20.0

and Dr. Snipes has every intention that we're going to meet that day.

0:23.2

One fact is that Rick Scott isn't interested in making sure

0:27.9

every lawful vote is counted.

0:29.9

And the second is that he's using his power as governor

0:33.6

to try to undermine the voting process.

0:36.9

You have already heard that in Florida,

0:38.8

the elections for governor, Senate, and State Agricultural Commissioner

0:42.2

are all so close they demand a recount.

0:45.1

First by machine, maybe eventually by hand,

0:48.8

but this recount, it's also kind of race.

0:52.5

So they're recounting three races at once?

0:55.9

No, they can't do it. Are we rolling now?

0:57.6

Yeah. Okay.

0:59.4

So Rick has in wrote a book called The Voting Wars.

1:02.0

He's been thinking about how elections work in the United States

1:05.2

since Bush v. Gore back in 2000.

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