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Reno Lost Primary Bid, Unofficial Results Show NewsMax.com StaffJanet Reno lagged behind her opponent by a mere 8,196 votes according the Florida’s state canvassing board – too large a margin to trigger an automatic recount – but the former Clinton administration Attorney General refuses to concede and hints she may challenge the results in court. "I think the Democratic Party is known as the party of the people, a party that wants its peoples' votes counted," Reno told reporters. "We have experienced many questions about the electoral process. I think those questions must be answered." According to the canvassing board, final tallies show Tampa attorney Bill McBride got 601,008 votes, or 44.5 percent, while Reno racked up 592,812 votes, or 43.9 percent. The results won’t be officially certified until next week. Reno campaign attorney Alan Greer told the Associated Press that Reno, who was urged by Democrat National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe to accept defeat, has not yet decided whether she will seek a recount or go to court to overturn the result, but was keeping her options open. The campaign fell 1,445 votes short of triggering a recount. Greer insists that Reno’s campaign doesn’t want to take any steps that will harm the Florida Democrats in the November elections. "We are not here to start World War III in the legal sense," Greer told the AP. Robin Rorapaugh, McBride's campaign manager, said to AP if Reno launched a court challenge it could cost Democrats and be "horribly divisive" in the campaign against Bush. David Niven, a Florida Atlantic University political science professor, agreed. "If Reno challenges this, it will be the ultimate act of political selfishness because it will be a dramatic help to Jeb Bush," he told the AP.
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