All right, enough already. There was no voting conspiracy against Sen. John Kerry in Florida.
A Miami Herald review of ballots cast in three northern Florida counties where Democrats outnumber Republicans confirmed yesterday what officials already have reported: The locals wanted a Republican for president.
Reporters perused about 17,000 optical scan ballots cast in three rural counties often cited by doubters: Suwannee, Lafayette and Union. The findings? The counties chose President Bush.
In Union County, for example, the paper counted 3,393 votes for Mr. Bush, 1,272 for Mr. Kerry and 15 that couldn't be counted. The official Union County total: 3,396 for Mr. Bush, 1,251 for Mr. Kerry and a few dozen that couldn't be counted.
"People here are mostly fundamentalist Christians who work in the prisons," county election supervisor Babs Montpetit told the Herald. "Do you think they're going to vote for the liberal senator from Massachusett |
