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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (80785)11/18/2000 7:37:35 AM
From: Mao II  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
DAY 11: America Held Hostage:

...Well into the evening — and hours after they had planned on
doing the count — several of the state's large counties had not
yet opened a single ballot because officials and lawyers from
both parties were still debating the rules for gauging their
validity.

State law says that ballots from other countries must be
postmarked. But Ms. Harris issued a statement earlier this
week saying that they did not have to be postmarked by
Election Day, as long as they were signed and dated by
Election Day. In other words, a ballot that was filled out on
Election Day but mailed the next day would still be valid.

Election officials in several counties, however, said today that
they had always understood that ballots postmarked after
Election Day were invalid, and that they had rejected such
ballots in previous elections. Democratic officials in several of
those counties said Ms. Harris wanted the maximum number of
overseas votes counted in the belief that they would benefit Mr.
Bush.

Ms. Harris's office did not return repeated calls seeking
comment, nor was a reporter who went to her office several
times today permitted to speak with anyone there.

....
nytimes.com
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