but again republican state senator dino rossi, and i certified him as governor. but our loss again are clear that the losing candidate has a right to request a hand recount. but they initially have to pay for it. but if the account reverses the race, then they get reimbursed. and, of course, i think logically they did request a recount and we immediately went into a recount by hand. that meeting each of the 39 counties that they had to organize themselves to go through each ballot one at a time. also, our laws are very clear that the political parties had a right to have observers so they were there, as we had tremendous news media scrutiny. so they were there. it ends up particularly for the larger counties of course it takes weeks, and it was just a pressure cooker in terms of what was going on. we were in a situation coming out of the 2000 presidential election in florida, there had been a recount and it was highly controversial, continues to be controversial for years later. it was a republican secretary of state who was widely viewed as playing partisan poli

it is the republican state senator dino rossi and i certified him as governor but our laws again, thecandidate to request a hand recount. they initially have to pay for it, the account reverses the race and not be reimbursed. a recount by hand. in each of the 39 counties they organize themselves to go through each ballot one at time. also allows for very clear, the political parties had a right to have observers so they were there, plus we had tremendous news media scrutiny so they were there, and it ends up particularly for the larger counties to take weeks and it was just a pressure cooker in terms of what was going on. we were in a situation coming out of the 2000 presidential election, in florida there had been a recount and it was highly controversial and continued to be controversial four years later, it was a republican secretary of state who was widely viewed as playing partisan politics and here i was as a republican secretary of state overseeing these recounts, so it set up a climate where voters of the state were very nervous, the democrats were nervous because it was a rep