Moore vows to take cameras to Florida

Last Updated Fri, 30 Jul 2004 12:05:58 EDT
BOSTON - Michael Moore pledged on Wednesday to take a film crew to Florida on voting day in an attempt to prevent a repeat of the contested presidential election of 2000.
"I am committed. I am coming to Florida," Moore was reported as saying in south Florida's Sun-Sentinel newspaper.

Michael Moore
"Together we will guarantee to every Floridian that their vote will be counted this year," he added before a cheering crowd of delegates at the Democratic National Convention in Boston.
Moore's latest film, the wildly popular documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, takes U.S. President George W. Bush to task for the invasion of Iraq and his handling of the Sept. 11 attacks.
But it begins by recounting the events of the last presidential election, which was decided in Florida. Some Americans, Moore among them, believe that the Bush campaign stole the election from Al Gore by disenfranchising black voters in the Sunshine State.
Bush won the election in Florida by 537 votes after a lengthy recount that eventually wound up in the U.S. Supreme Court.
Republicans, however, have repeatedly dismissed the charge that they did anything improper. "I don't think anyone should ever answer Michael Moore seriously," said Reed Dickens, a Bush campaign spokesperson.
Moore says he plans to travel to Florida in October and stay through the election, which takes place on Nov. 2.
He had words of warning for the president's brother, who is governor of Florida.
"I really want Jeb Bush to know that the majority of Americans really resent doing things that would deny the right to vote to registered voters in the state of Florida."
Written by CBC News Online staff