A Democratic Party activist filed suit in Seminole County Friday seeking to invalidate 
at least 4,700 of the 15,000 absentee ballots cast before the election. 

The suit contends that the county elections supervisor allowed Republican activists
 to write registration numbers on the contested absentee ballot requests -- nearly
 all of them from registered Republicans -- when the requests were mailed in without numbers. 

The voters were supposed to have written their registration numbers on the ballots 
themselves, the suit said. Seminole County voted 75,667 to 59,174 for Bush.