No partisan political activity transpired in my office during the recount period.

Registering people to vote is not partisan activity.

If Al Gore had allowed us and if the Florida Supreme Court had not intervened and rewritten the law, which they're not supposed to do, we could have certified, which is a mere procedural action, and then after that, they could have petitioned any justice for a recount statewide with uniform standards.

This should be a non-political, non-partisan process,

a partisan Democrat who has done some really rotten political prosecuting.

regrettably going through a period of confrontation and political brinkmanship.