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To: ColtonGang who wrote (35659)	9/8/2000 9:13:49 AM
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You want fresh material!! Report: Cheney Skipped Votes By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Filed at 7:33 a.m. ET DALLAS (AP) -- Republican vice presidential nominee Dick Cheney skipped voting in 14 of 16 elections since he registered to vote in Dallas County nearly five years ago, The Dallas Morning News reported Friday. The missed votes included the March Texas primary in which Cheney could have cast his ballot for his future running mate, Gov. George W. Bush. Cheney, campaigning Thursday in Maine, declined requests for an interview about his voting record, according to the News. A spokeswoman also refused to comment. But county records examined by the paper show Cheney registered to vote in December 1995 after moving to an upscale section of Dallas from the Washington, D.C., area as the new CEO of oilfield services company Halliburton. The elections in which he voted were the November 1996 presidential election and the November 1998 race for governor and other state and local offices. To avoid a constitutional conflict with running mates from the same state, Cheney changed his voter registration to Wyoming, his home state, in July, days before being tapped by Bush. He has since voted in the GOP presidential primary there. ``Certainly, people would expect those seeking to lead them would take the time to vote,'' Douglas Hattaway, a spokesman for Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore, told the News. ``But I guess it's hard when you're a busy oil company executive.'' Cheney's 2-for-16 voting history in Dallas compares with the five-for-six election participation rate of his Democratic rival Sen. Joe Lieberman over the same period in Connecticut. Although Cheney's role at Halliburton sent him on frequent trips away from Dallas, Texas election law generously allows for absentee voting. Earlier this month, while in Pennsylvania, Cheney had to defend his direct contributions to charities, which accounted for less than 1 percent of the $4 million he earned last year. Questions about the donations arose after Cheney released personal tax records for himself and his wife Lynne showing that $442,152 went to charities from 1989 to 1999. The 14 Dallas County elections Cheney skipped were the presidential and state primaries, primary runoffs and Highland Park city elections in 1996; two state constitutional amendment votes in 1997; a Highland Park school board vote, a Highland Park city election, a state primary and primary runoffs in 1998; a hotly contested Highland Park school bond election and a constitutional amendment vote in 1999; and this year's primary and primary runoffs. Records in New Haven, Conn., show senator Lieberman voted in all but one of six elections there since December 1995, missing a November 1997 mayoral contest. Records were not available before 1995. Cheney was registered in Casper, Wyo., from 1978 until he moved to Dallas, which includes his 21 years in Congress and his time as defense secretary from 1989 to 1993. Only records of federal elections, not state or local ballots, are available for Wyoming in those years. The Wyoming records show Cheney voted in every federal primary and general election from 1978 to 1994.