“My announcement is going to be about getting Alabama back on track. We are going to go through and highlight the things that I've done and highlight the things that Gov. Riley has not done,”
“[But Siegelman tells a different story:] Sometime after midnight, after the poll watchers were sent home, a small group there decided to recount the votes a third time, ... No watchers legally entitled to be present were notified -- and then a different total was established.”
“Either way, it comes down to just 3,000 votes out of approximately 1,360,000 votes cast, ... That's just two-tenths of 1 percent of the total vote cast in this election. Such a small margin would have already triggered a recount in 12 states.”
“I ask for a statewide recount of every vote in this election -- a recount of every vote in every precinct, of every vote in every county, ... Let's recount all of the votes and discover once and for all who was the legitimate winner of Tuesday's election.”
“Today I am directing state agencies to work closely with each other and local governments and to make every effort possible to prevent the spread of the West Nile virus,”
