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 card except that it was about a quarter of an inch thick. Once the poll was
 closed, then that memory card was placed in what I believe is called a modem,
 and then the results were sent over telephone wires to the central facility in
 DeLand. I'd go in there from time to time and you'd hear this strange squealing
 sound as they would all be uploading into the main computer.

 Two things happened that evening that at first I didn't realize were the same
 problem. The first thing that happened, it seemed to me this was after the polls
 had closed, I was still busy, I'm sure, struggling with absentee ballots, and the
 county attorney came over to me. He said to me, something funny is going on. I
 said, oh? He said, well, I've been looking at the results for president, that are
 posted on some electronic bulletin board in the central office of the supervisor of
 elections, and he said, more and more precincts are uploading their results into
 the computer, but Al Gore has 10,000 fewer votes than he had about half an hour
 ago. I said, that is strange, and I went back to work. Then about an hour after
 that, the lady who is the number two person in the office directly under Deanie
 came to me and she said, Judge McDermott, we have a corrupted memory card.
 I stared at her for a few seconds and I said, what does that mean? She said,
 well, I can tell by looking at it that it's been damaged. It was probably dropped on
 a hard floor. Of course, by this time they were constantly delivering [ballots and
 memory cards] from precincts from all over the county, the memory cards as well
 as the paper ballots. I said, well I'm sure if we have the memory card from that
 precinct, we, therefore, also have the paper ballots from that precinct. She said,
 oh yes.

P: Now this is 216? Is that right? Do you remember?

M: It would be on the letter that I wrote to the Wall Street Journal. I said, so let's set
 up a scanner here with a new memory card, and let's simply read those ballots.
 Of course, once we read the ballots, we realized that there was a huge problem,
 that indeed only ... If I can take a look at the letter I wrote to the Wall Street
 Journal, I can tell you.

P: You said the count dropped something like 16,022.

M: Okay, now these are negative votes. Remember high school algebra?

P: Yes. [laughing]

M: These are negative votes for Al Gore, even though only a grand total of 219
 people voted in that precinct all day long. So ,we realized that there was a huge
 problem. This was perhaps by eleven o'clock at night when we finally recounted
 electronically the results of that precinct.
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