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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (493)	11/6/2000 9:05:12 PM
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And what about this?? From Associated Press tonight 7:31 EST... Ark. Governor Criticizes Own State washingtonpost.com By James Jefferson Associated Press Writer Monday, Nov. 6, 2000; 7:31 p.m. EST LITTLE ROCK, Ark. –– Gov. Mike Huckabee called his own state a banana republic when it comes to elections and suggested Democratic election officials might try to steal victory from Republican George W. Bush. Angry Democrats accused the governor of trashing his own state Monday on the "Imus in the Morning" program, which is broadcast from New York and syndicated nationally. Asked by host Don Imus if Bush would win Arkansas, Huckabee said the Republican would get the most votes. "Now whether it'll count up that way ... . Our biggest concern is ballot fraud. It's like the Banana Republic of Arkansas in an election," Huckabee said, referring to questions about some Arkansas counties that allowed early voting on weekends. Huckabee claimed weekend voting is illegal according to a 1995 state election law, but neither state election officials nor state courts have issued interpretations of the law as it applies to early voting. "They're lining up buses at minority churches, loading them up and hauling them to the polls as soon as church is over," Huckabee said. "That's against the law, but when you have Democrats running the election commissions, Democrat prosecutors, Democrat judges, what are you going to do to stop it?" Secretary of State Sharon Priest, a Democrat, said she was outraged that the governor went on public airwaves and talked so poorly of his own state. And as the state's chief election official, she said she was offended by Huckabee's suggestion Democrats would allow vote fraud. Vaughn McQuary, the state Democratic Party chairman, said weekend voting is commonplace in many states, including Bush's home state of Texas. "They say the most dangerous place in the world to be is between Mike Huckabee and a microphone," McQuary said. "All I can say is, he must be very anxious about having to explain to Gov. Bush how he lost Arkansas." During the program, Huckabee said he "thought about calling Jimmy Carter in to see if he could come monitor our elections. He goes to Central America to do that. Come to Arkansas." Huckabee spokesman Rex Nelson called the comment a joke. However, in an interview Monday with The Associated Press, Huckabee didn't back down from his statements. "Instead of trying to feign some sense of hurt, they need to be making sure the elections are done properly," he said. Sen. Jay Bradford, a Democrat and state Senate president pro tem, said Huckabee damaged the reputation the state had spent years and millions of dollars to improve. "He trashed the state," Bradford said. "That thought will linger across this nation. If that's just an excuse for Gov. Bush's loss and the governor's reputation, we've paid a heck of a price for it." © Copyright 2000 The Associated Press