I recently saw Katherine Harris interviewed on TV regarding the portrayal of her in the TV movie "Recount." That movie presents the Democratic Party myth that George Bush stole the 2000 Presidential election from Al Gore. (The reality, of course, is that the Democrats and Al Gore made every effort to steal the election.) Harris pointed out that she had ordered a state-wide recount of the Florida vote that was required by Florida law because of the closeness of the election, regardless of who was the apparent winner. (The recount was to be done with a specific set of guidelines, which was not the situation in the original count, but the Democrats didn't want that either.) Gore and the Democrats objected. Gore's pollsters had told him that he would not win a statewide recount. (After all, the Republicans who controlled districts in the north could be just as creative as the Democrats in the south.) So, Gore went to court to get a recount only in districts controlled by Democrats. They knew that Florida law would support selective recounts only in cases of suspected fraud. They could not provide any evidence of fraud in the four heavily Democratic districts where they wanted the recount; in fact, it would have been inconvenient to prove fraud in those districts since the Democrats controlled them completely, and local Democrat officials objected to being thrown under the bus for Gore. Gore got the local Democratically controlled Florida Supreme Court to go along with his scheme in a purely partisan decision, with the Court effectively legislating from the bench (something Democrats are comfortable with, but that bothers Republicans). Bush went to the US Supreme Court, which correctly struck down the Florida Courts decision in a non-partisan 7-2 decision. The Court also ruled to stop the recount, which gave the win to Florida, avoiding throwing the election to the House of Representatives, where Republicans and Bush would have prevailed by virtue of Republicans controlling more state delegations than the Democrats. The Democrats had more Congressman, but the vote is done by state. Subsequently many news organizations counted all of the ballots under different guidelines, and Bush got the most votes. Democrats claimed that many of their voters, maybe 10,000, had inadvertently spoiled their ballots by voting for more than one candidate because of a confusing ballot (which had been designed by the Democrats), and that it was certain that those people really meant to vote only for Gore. (That was probably true, but would hardly be a fair criteria for counting the vote.) Democrats seem to have forgotten that they have a habit of winning close elections that they initially appeared to lose by finding previously uncounted boxes of votes that magically have just enough votes to push the Democrat over the top. In the 2000 election Bush originally won in New Mexico, but after a few days Democrats discovered some previously uncounted votes that gave Gore a 300 vote victory. Lyndon Johnson once won election in Texas when a box was found a few days after the election that gave Johnson an 87 vote victory, and curiously, the voters in the just found box had voted in alphabetical order, an amazing coincidence. Recently Democrats won the governorship Of Washington after a series of recounts that went on until the Democrat had somehow found enough votes, at which point Democrats declared the election over.