World News 28-11-2000 Gore Will Fight For "Fair Count" who: Al Gore what: Says he will fight for a fair vote where: Florida, USA when: Yesterday snippet: "Al Gore threw everything into a legal, political and public relations offensive yesterday," says The Guardian after the Democratic candidate for the US presidency told the nation that their very democracy was at stake. On Sunday, Florida`s secretary of state declared Mr Gore`s Republican rival the winner of the election following a partial manual recount which, in any normal election, would have made Mr Bush the president elect. But this is no normal election and Mr Gore says that there has not yet been a fair and accurate count. "In papers filed in Florida, [Mr Gore`s] lawyers contested the results in three of the state`s 67 counties," reports The Independent`s Mary Dejevsky, "saying sufficient votes were at stake to change the result statewide." "I believe our Constitution means more than convenience," said Mr Gore, insisting in effect that it matters not who wins or loses, but how one plays the game. "We count the votes. We do not set them aside because it is too difficult to count them." "We want to make sure that... whoever takes office does so without clouds of doubt or anger hanging over his head," agrees Mr Gore`s running mate Joe Lieberman, "and the way to do that is to count all the votes." [... more]

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