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Election 2000: Travelers at LAX React to Presidential Drama

Aired November 9, 2000 - 11:29 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

STEPHEN FRASIER, CNN ANCHOR: Well, as we have been telling you, voters across the United States are watching and waiting as this presidential election drama plays out. And now, as promised, CNN's Greg LaMotte is joining us with some reaction from voters in Los Angeles.

Hi, Greg.

GREG LAMOTTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Stephen, I am wondering if there is anyone in this country who is not talking about this particular election. We are at Los Angeles International Airport, where we figured we might be able to find a pretty good cross-section of folks coming in and out of town. We have found a couple of people who had some opinions about what is going on in Florida.

First of all, Sandra Pusada (ph), thank you for joining us?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, how are you?

LAMOTTE: Good. How do you deal feel about what is happening in this particular election?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, so far and up to date, I understand that there's a judge in Florida who wants to recount the 19,000 votes that were disqualified because of double voting on the ballot. I really think that should really -- people should really look into that and really should voice their opinion, because at the margin that Bush is leading, 19,000 votes is a lot of votes not to take into consideration. It's very important that they don't just dismiss that. Make sure that that gets really looked at in its entirety.

LAMOTTE: Do you feel like democracy is working?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At this point, I feel like so many of us just feel duped. We feel like, what is going on? There is ballots that were missing for a while. And now there is ballots that were misleading in Palm Beach, and now 19,000 votes that have double voting punch cards on there.

It just seems like a lot of different things, too many discrepancies. I wouldn't want people of the United States to lose trust in democracy and it just seems like we are heading that way.

LAMOTTE: Thank you very much. Gossered Stone (ph), who is traveling to New York today, your thoughts about what is happening today?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It just brings a lot of doubt in my mind, whether the whole electoral system is a good reflection of our new president. There is a lot of problems with counting and exactly how many votes are actually valid and whatnot. And it just makes me think that whoever they elect, is that really our president, or is it miscounted or a mistake, basically.

LAMOTTE: The electoral process in our country guarantees that each state will get representation. Do you think we should just go to a straight popular vote, or do you think we should take another look at how elect the president?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we should take another look. I think it should be more in depth. Because the president of the United States is a very important person. He makes a lot of decisions for our country and it's important for everybody on who's our president. And basically, there should be actually more time taken in voting, instead of just the one day. I think it should be three days and not only that, people should be able to vote on-line and given a reference number, perhaps, and go on so they can only vote once. So they won't make any mistakes and actually vote for the wrong person that they didn't want to vote for.

There is a lot of loopholes in the system, and I think that is what -- whoever they elect may not actually be rightful president. And so we all have to take that in stride. I don't know.

LAMOTTE: Should there be a standardized ballot across the country?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yeah, I think so. I think everything should be equal across the country, and especially like in other places, like the Virgin Islands, and we should include all that. And this should all be sort of, you know, united thing and that everything is the same and everything is equal so everyone feels like they have gotten an equal chance to make a decision on who runs our country.

LAMOTTE: Thank you very much, that is Gossered Stone, who is flying to New York today.

Many of the people that we have talked to today have said: Look, somebody is going to be elected. Maybe our attention should start moving toward what kind of political shape that person will be in once they do enter the White House -- Stephen.

FRASIER: Greg, that is material for days and days of news coverage yet to come. Greg LaMotte, in Los Angeles, thanks very much.

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