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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: zonkie who wrote (93480)11/29/2000 2:52:14 AM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 769668
 
This is the heart of the AP story:

Behind the problem are the thousands of absentee ballot applications mailed out statewide by Florida’s political parties. A printing glitch in a printer used by Republicans stripped the required voter-identification number from about 80 percent of the ballot applications the party mailed out in Seminole County.

UNFAIR BENDING OF THE RULES?
According to the lawsuit, Goard’s staffers set aside the applications missing voter IDs so they could destroyed later. But sometime in October, a GOP official called and asked if someone could come in and add the voter IDs to the applications.
Goard agreed. Leach showed up at her office shortly afterward with a laptop computer, added the numbers and turned them in. The applications were processed and absentee ballots were mailed out.
Democrats are outraged, saying Goard had never before allowed anyone outside her office to add voter IDs. A state law passed after Miami’s fraudulent 1997 mayoral race says only the voter, an immediate family member or legal guardian may fill out an absentee ballot request.
Democrats also say they were never notified about the arrangement and weren’t given the same opportunity. There was no indication any ballot applications sent out by Democrats were missing voter ID numbers.

msnbc.com
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