<<Hundreds of Overseas Ballots Rejected
By BRENT KALLESTAD, Associated Press Writer
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - More than 1,000 overseas absentee ballots
were thrown out Friday as Republicans complained of a coordinated
challenge by Democrats, particularly against ballots from military personnel.
In some counties, half or nearly all of the ballots were rejected, many of them
military ballots that apparently didn't have postmarks.
Orange County, for example, rejected 117 of its 147 overseas ballots.
``The party of the man who wants to be the next commander-in-chief is trying
to throw out the votes of the men and women he will be commanding,''
charged Jim Post, a Republican lawyer in Duval County, where 107 ballots
were rejected.
``We had a lot of ballots with no postmarks so we had to declare them
invalid,'' said Dick Carlberg, assistant elections supervisor in Duval County.
Thomas Spencer, a Miami attorney for Bush, said the GOP legal team would
weigh whether to sue this weekend. ``One of the problems with those ballots
is it is so difficult under Florida and federal law that you almost have to be a
rocket scientist to comply,'' he said.
Earlier this week, Mark Herron, a Tallahassee lawyer helping shepherd
Democratic presidential election lawsuits through the local courts, sent a
five-page letter to Democratic attorneys throughout Florida giving them tips
on how to lodge protests against overseas ballots.
Such protests must be lodged before the ballot is taken out of the envelope.
The letter, given to The Associated Press by a Republican source, focused
on protesting military ballots, which are assumed to be heavily in favor of
Bush, and included a section on military postmarks.>> [...]
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I guess Gore figured he couldn't get 1,000 chads pregnant. I thought the Dems big deal was "determining the will of the people." So much for rank hypocrisy...
This whole thing makes me want to barf. |
