Listening to Jesse Jackson's version of events in Florida, you'd think the Republicans were trying to elect George Wallace, not George W. Bush. According to Jackson, in Seminole County, "Republicans went in and began to fill out absentee ballots. That is a case of tampering before the court now. . . . Those are crimes punishable by jail sentences." Actually, Republicans are being sued for filling out absentee ballot request forms. And for that matter, the last thing Democrats want is for Judge Nikki Clark to punish local election officials. They want her to throw out Seminole County's absentee ballots, which would throw the election to Gore.
As a modern Talleyrand might put it, Jackson is worse than a liar, he's badly off message.