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--- ----~--------------------------------- No Angelic Performance Voting Power Movie critic Gunder Kehoe writes that the new Get-out-the-vote efforts and media coverage Thursday film "Charlie's Angels" is a poor Hollywood may have been factors in the increased voter remake of an old television show. turnout in Tuesday's elections. NOVEMBER9, Scene + page 15 News + page 11 2000 THE The Independent Newspaper Serving Notre Dame and Saint Mary's VOL XXXIV NO. 52 HTTP://OBSERVER.ND.EDU Vote recount continues in Florida + Officials say • Students blast results may come hasjy _predictions by 5 p.m. today by TV networks Associated Press By HELENA PAYNE News Writer TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Florida officials began recount­ ing nearly 6 million ballots Several Notre Dame students Wednesday to determine the next compared the 2000 presidential president. while Democrats and elections to a prolonged specta­ some voters complained of elec­ tor sport and said the media tion irregularities. Partial results made hasty predictions about the showed AI Gore cutting into winner of Florida's electoral George W. Bush's lead. votes. The recount in all 67 counties "I went to sleep crying was triggered by state law because I thought [Republican candidate Governor George] because Republican Bush led Democrat Gore by less than one­ Bush won, but I was happy to see half of 1 per- that they are definitely making sure who the winner is and I'm centage point. See Also still hopeful that [Democratic State officials said they expect "Ballots candidate Vice President AlJ Gore will win," said Lisa to finish by the confuse some end of the day Demidovich, vice president of the Thursday. voters" College Democrats. Florida elec- Demidovich said that the televi­ tions supervisors sion networks made many also waited for page 6 assumptions about the winner of an undeter- various states too early. mined number of overseas ballots, "I think it was pretty prema­ primarily from military personnel ture," said Demidovich. and their families. The state College Republicans treasurer allows 10 days after the election Trip Foley said that he and other for the ballots to come in. Republican Party supporters fol­ The state counted about 2.300 lowed the election Tuesday overseas ballots in the 1996 elec­ evening, but doubted the early tion - more than the margin sep­ evening announcements by news arating Gore and Bush this. time anchors that Gore had won - so there is a remote possibility Florida. that those ballots alone could "We knew that the media had change the outcome. called it too early and that it was The Florida totals, including all close and we are still confident absentee ballots received so far, that Bush will win," said Foley. showed Bush with 2,909,135 votes The constant updates and and Gore with 2,907,351- a dif­ changing information made some ference of 1. 784 in a state with students question the accuracy of 8.75 million registered voters. the political contest. Sophomore Irene Onyeagbako said that she After 28 of Florida's 67 counties AFP Photo were recounted Wednesday, Gore wasn't convinced that the net­ Vice President AI Gore offers a statement during a press conference Wednesday, while Sen. works' predicted election results Joe Lieberman listens. Gore said he won't make any predictions about his contest with see FLORIDA/page 6 George W. Bush but rather await the results from the vote recount ptaking place in Florida. see STUDENTS/page 4 NEWS ANALYSIS Bush-Gore race prompts electoral college concerns Tilden by one electoral vote despite losing 'iH the end of the day, it takes a "In order to end the electoral college, By ANNE MARIE MATTINGLY the popular vote, and again in 1888 when we would need to amend the News Editor Grover Cleveland carried the popular great deal of support to amend Constitution," said Savage, who noted vote but lost the electoral college to the Constitution." that the amendment process is never The inaguration of a President who did Benjamin Harrison. The only son of a for­ easy. "It seems to me more so than in any not win the greatest number of popular mer president ever to be elected presi­ Christina Wolbrecht other time in our history, public opinion votes is a distinct possibility this January, dent himself. John Quincy Adams, won and election officials would aggressively according to some Notre Dame and Saint neither the electoral nor popular vote government professor challenge the electoral college." Mary's government professors. If Texas in1824, but was given the presidency by Wolbrecht explained that for an Governor George W. Bush, who will most the House of Representatives when his of government at Notre Dame, said the amendment to become part of the likely lose the popular vote, carries the opponent Andrew Jackson also did not race is definitely tight. Constitution, it must pass both houses of toss-up state of Florda, he will win the earn enough electoral votes to win. "It is among the closest races, certainly Congress by a two-thirds majority before electoral college by a margin of at least Sean Savage, associate professor of in the 20th century and even for all 200- being sent to state legislatures for ratifica­ 271 to 260 and become the third presi­ political science at Saint Mary's, said the some years," she said. tion. dent in history to be elected in a divided chances are as high as one in three that But both Savage and Wolbrecht said "At the end of the day, it takes a great contest. Bush will become the fourth president to that a Bush election without the largest deal of support to revise the Constitution. The nation has only witnessed two such be elected without winning the popular number of popular votes would not neces­ We don't do that very often, so I think the elections in history, first in 1876 when vote. sarily signal the end of the electoral col­ Ruteherford Hayes defeated Samuel Christina Wolbrecht, assistant professor lege. see COLLEGE/page 4 page 2 The Observer+ INSIDE Thursday, November 9, 2000 INSIDE COLUMN THIS WEEK AT NOTRE DAME/SAINT MARY'S Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday A woman's place +Concert: Fall Choral + Hockey: NO vs Boston +Movie: "Topsy Turvy," 9 +Exhibition: NO men's As I stood Tuesday night in the packed Concert, 7:30p.m., Little College, 7 p.m. Joyce p.m., Annenberg basketball vs. Grand Hyatt in New York City with other staff members, interns, and supporters of Hillary Theatre Center Fieldhouse Auditorium International Select, Rodham Clinton, a roar of approval and +Movie: The original + Concert: The + Play: Dylan Thomas' 1 p.m., Joyce Center cheers sounded when the official announce­ ment came that the First "Shaft," 10:30 p.m., Undertones present "Big "Under Milk Wood," 8 + Football: Interhall Lady had won the elec­ Colleen DeBartolo 155 Men on Campus," 8 p.m., p.m., Little Theatre Championships, 11 a.m., tion to become the first McCarthy woman to serve as a O'Laughlin Auditorium 12:30 p.m., Notre Dame senator from New York. But I wasn't cheering Associate Stadium just as a staff member News Editor because I had worked for the campaign this summer for three months and the week OUTSIDE THE DOME Compiled from U-Wire reports before the election. It went deeper than that. I was cheering because I was witnessing another woman assuming her "place" in the Senate. Boston University students back third party The election of Hillary Rodham Clinton as the first First Lady to run for and subsequent­ BOSTON vinced me [to vote for him}. I felt ly win a political office signaled another When she cast it Tuesday, Megan inspired by the fact that people care breakthrough for women, just as the election Blanck-Weiss thought her vote about making government for the of three other women to the Senate did on wouldn't matter. In fact, the candi­ people again." Tuesday. date she voted for is not even the Daza said she doesn't see her vote Everytime a woman is elected to political candidate she hoped would win. taking anything away from Gore office, it is a giant step forward for women. It Blanck-Weiss said while she cast because of his expected victory in is a step toward making all issues women's her vote for Green Party candidate Massachusetts. She did say she issues. It is a step toward having Congress Halph Nader, she actually believes would like to see Nader get at least 5 reflect the demographics of America, where Democratic candidate Vice President percent of the vote, and thus qualify women outnumber men. It is a step toward AI Gore is the man best lit to be the his party for federal funding in 2004, electing a woman president or vice president next president of the United States. however. of the U.S. Although resistance still exists With the major parties so close on so "I don't expect him to be presi­ surrounding the idea of women holding politi­ many issues, however. Blanck-Weiss dent," Daza said. "I just think it's cal office, strides have been made. said she voted to help bring third­ among the Boston University stu­ good that he inspires us to revolt To understand how far we have come, party diversity to the next election. dents who voted Tuesday, some of against what is wrong." think about this: of the 27 women who have "I support the Green Party as a whom said they were moved to the Some students discounted the served in the Senate, before 1992, only 15 third party," she said.

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