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...will almost certainly happen again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President Bush in the 2000 election recall, “There’s no perfect process, and there are always creative lawyers who can come up with something to complain about if the election is close...
...will almost certainly happen again, not in one, but in multiple states. Battleground states such as Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida (again) are likely settings for post-election litigation. These states have large numbers of Electoral College votes, making small numbers of disputed ballots worth fighting for. According to Bobby Burchfield, a Republican election lawyer who represented President Bush in the 2000 election recall, “There’s no perfect process, and there are always creative lawyers who can come up with something to complain about if the election is close...
Barnes now claims that he taped conversations with a former top defense official seeking damaging information on Perot. The only sign that there may be something to Barnes' charge is Bush campaign counsel Bobby Burchfield's refusal to say whether the ex-official is associated with the election effort...
...order" and charge that "Mr. Bush's campaign is virtually a wholly owned subsidiary of Japan Inc." Senior White House officials later pressed Lake and Black to sever ties with their firms to prevent Clinton from capitalizing on the issue, but the effort fizzled. Explains Bush-Quayle counsel Bobby Burchfield: "If you have to sever your ties with business in order to work in presidential campaigns, people will not work in presidential campaigns...
...past the Bush team had undercut its attacks on Clinton's draft record by couching them in ridicule and bombast. Under Baker's orders, Teeter asked campaign counsel Bobby Burchfield to pull together the record in a clear, undramatic fashion and let the public judge. Burchfield turned out a lengthy, side-by-side comparison of Clinton's comments over the past year that fueled numerous news reports. "Basically," says Burchfield, "this is a situation where the histrionics could very easily get in the way of the message we're trying to put out, which is look at what...