Attorney Dennis Newman is currently leading the Gore team responsible for handling legal challenges to votes in Florida. Among the efforts Newman is spearheading is a lawsuit aimed at forcing some counties to consider so-called “dimpled” ballots — where there is a slight indentation on the ballot — as actual votes.
The Palm Beach Post reports, however, that in 1996 Newman represented Democrat Philip Johnston who was declared the winner in a Boston race on election day by 266 votes, only to end up losing the election by 108 votes after a recount. Amazingly enough, when it became clear that counting dimpled ballots favored the Republican candidate, Newman argued that considering such ballots was wrong and that the so-called chads might fall out on their own from repeated handling.
Ah, the fresh smell of hypocrisy wafting through the land.
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