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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Ellen who wrote (99471)12/3/2000 2:42:55 PM
From: PartyTime  Read Replies (4) of 769670
 
Misconduct committed:

Under Florida law, the voter making the absentee ballot request
must complete the voter identification number.11
Altering an absentee ballot request is a third-degree felony in
Florida.12
Over the objection of her attorney, Goard admitted allowing the
GOP to fix incomplete GOP ballot requests "without any provision
of the statute that says they could do so."13
GOP and Democratic requests were separated: GOP requests
fixed, Democratic requests rejected.14
GOP operatives were allowed unsupervised access to election files
and computers for 15 days,15 compromising the integrity of election
records.

Remedy mandated by the law:

USA Today: "Florida law says all the county's absentee ballots must
be voided" if any are tainted.16
CNN: "Under Florida law, if absentee ballots have a problem with
them, you have got to throw [out] all of the ballots, even if the
applications have a problem."17
Precedent under Florida law: Florida's 3rd District Court of
Appeals overturned the 1997 election of Miami Mayor Xavier
Suarez for absentee ballot fraud; all 5,000 absentee ballots were
disqualified based upon 400 identified fraudulent ballots18 (see
ruling).
Precedent under federal law: U.S. Court of Appeals, Eleventh
Circuit, in the 1994 the case of Roe v. Alabama, overturned the
election of the Alabama state supreme court justice by disqualifying
absentee ballots that were accepted in one county with missing
witness signatures19 (see ruling).

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