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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Like many other Americans, O.J. Simpson watched TV as cameras followed a truckload of election ballots headed for the state capital. His verdict? "This is boring!"
"All I could think of was now I know what people went through when they were trying to watch the basketball game and my Bronco was going up the freeway," he said in a telephone interview Thursday.
"In my case it may have been a little more intriguing because people didn't know what was going to happen," said Simpson. "Here they know the ballots are going to get to Tallahassee."
As a new Florida resident, Simpson said he voted in Miami-Dade County and is confident his vote was cast accurately. But he said he's talked to many who had problems.
"I know a woman who said she hit her ballot twice," he said. "I think they should recount all the votes."
Simpson was the defendant in a nationally televised murder trial six years ago. Before his arrest in June 1994, he led police on a slow-speed chase along Southern California freeways followed all the way by helicopters with TV cameras.
He was acquitted of the murders of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman, but was subsequently found liable for the killings in a civil suit filed by their families. He was ordered to pay $33.5 million in damages. Many observers have compared the long ride of the ballots to the Bronco chase.
