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 infamous attorney from Orlando who was invited to leave.

P: Brown, is that his name? David Brown, yes.

M: Is that what it is?

P: Yes.

M: But we're getting ahead of ourselves. Generally speaking they were Volusia
 County attorneys. The bottom line with us was at that point the news media was
 stating that the margin between George Bush and Al Gore was fewer than 400
 votes. This is out of more than 6 million votes cast. We realized that we had
 some serious problems in terms of public confidence in the accuracy of our
 numbers simply because of the malfunctioning of that one precinct on the night in
 question generating thousands of negative votes for Al Gore, and then the
 incident of the elderly gentleman coming in and plopping down the bag of ballots
 on the counter the previous night. All three of us on the board said, listen, the
 Presidency of the United States is in the balance, we have got to make sure that
 our numbers are accurate because we do not want the race to be decided based
 upon an inaccurate reading of our ballots. So, we discussed it among ourselves
 and then we unanimously voted to conduct the recount. Now, after we had made
 that vote, the attorney from Orlando, and you told me his name, I don't know [if]
 that's his name, he continued to argue, as he had done previously, that we ought
 not to conduct a full recount. I said, excuse me, we have already voted to
 conduct the recount, and that did not stop him. He kept on arguing again, we
 ought not to conduct a full recount, [so] I said to him, you are out of order. And
 he said, you are out of order. That's why I looked at a deputy and I pointed to
 him and I said, remove him, now. All the television stations picked that up, my
 pointing at him and then the deputy sheriff taking him out. See, a Volusia County
 attorney would have known better than to try a stunt like that with me.

P: At this point, do you immediately start the recount? Because at some point you
 move the ballots to the County Administration Center.

M: Right. No, we concluded the meeting after that, but then we got together the
 next day, and that's when Deanie Lowe got together with people from the county
 manager's office about how we're going to do this. In fact, as I recall, we started
 the recount actually in the elections office, and it became obvious that there was
 just not enough room. We did not have enough people, and we were stumbling
 all over each other. That's when, I guess it was sometime later that day, that
 Deanie came in with one of the assistant county managers and they said, you
 know what we really ought to do is move everything across the street on the
 ground floor of the County Administration Building. They've got, I think it's called
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