Chris Dodd: “I mentioned yesterday the juxtaposition of the events that unfolded on November 7, 2000, and the events as they are…”

“I mentioned yesterday the juxtaposition of the events that unfolded on November 7, 2000, and the events as they are unfolding today on October 16, 2002. When you consider the scenes that dominated the news media for days and days after the November 7 elections, with bulging eyeballs glaring and butterfly ballots and hanging chads and people bellowing at each other and outside auditors at registrars of voters offices in Florida, here we are today in the relative calm of this institution, about to adopt, I hope overwhelmingly, legislation that addresses many of the concerns that were raised as a result of the events in Florida. But they were not just in Florida, as I said. There were other States as well, and it has been going on for some time.”