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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: Northern Marlin who wrote (8307)12/3/2000 10:10:28 PM
From: Roger A. Babb  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
Phil, I agree that Gore has no future if he loses now. And a short 4 years if he wins. If the facts in Seminole are as you reported, ie Republican rejected absentee ballots given to Republican workers for correction while Democrat rejected absentee ballots were placed in a discard box, this is a criminal act. If it can be argued (and I think it can) that the mistakes should be corrected and the ballots accepted, then all parties should have had the same opportunity.

"In a deposition last week, Goard said she had rejected ballot requests that did not contain voter ID numbers as required by Florida law, but then approved a telephoned GOP plea to let Republican workers add those numbers to Republican applications. Goard said her office sorted out the Republican rejects so they could be revised, but left rejected Democratic and independent applications sitting in a discard box."

I do not favor rejecting the GOP absentee ballots, I think all possible votes should be counted. Therefore I would argue for adding the voter registration number to the other party ballots also. How can we possibly defend correcting the GOP ballots and not the Democratic ballots IF this is what happened? I find it very hard to believe that this actually happened and even harder to believe that anyone can defend it!
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