His wife, Tipper, added, "Let's not have a shadow of a doubt.
"Let's not leave anything hanging this time," she said, alluding to the tens of thousands of ballots invalidated in the 2000 race because of hanging chads, the perforated paper squares voters failed to fully dislodge from their punch-card ballots.
Some who came to hear Gore said they thought the former vice president had grown more passionate in his role as a watchdog on election fairness.
"Obama seems to be a very inspirational person as compared to, and I hate to say it, but Gore speaks a lot better today than he did eight years ago," said Joe Goldstein, a semiretired consultant from New York's Westchester County.
Goldstein was in Florida volunteering for the "Great Schlep," an effort by Jewish Democrats from across the country to flood Florida to persuade their elders to vote for Obama.
Most of those at the Broward rally raised their hands when asked if they had already voted. Some waiting outside the library to vote said skipping the Gore event was the price they had to pay.
"We wanted him to win last time. We wouldn't have this mess we're in if we got him last time," said Mona Loschner, a Czech-born hospital laboratory technician who was disappointed that she missed Gore's rally. "I could only take so much time off from work, and it was more important to do the voting."
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