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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: lawdog who wrote (97405)12/1/2000 3:53:15 PM
From: Timothy W. Johnson  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
<There are two groups who can be disenfranchised here:

1. 50 million+ voters who support Gore and will see their candidate lose because Seminole county allowed only the GOP to go in and illegally alter absentee ballot requests>

lawdog - I can't think of a good argument here, except for the fact that filling in the missing information was a ministerial act. It didn't change the voter's vote. As to your second point:

<2. 3500 Bush voters who did not fill out their absentee ballot requests properly (so they must be too stupid?) but who were allowed to vote because of the partisan act of a county elections supervisor.>

The Bush voters were not asked to fill in the information. The missing information was supposed to have been pre-printed on the form. The form did not ask for the information. The voters filled out the ballot properly, including punching the chad all the way out of the card, hence the vote was counted.
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