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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (64232)	11/8/2000 3:04:54 PM
From: $Mogul	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Gore will get the majiority of these as the counties are in the Dem's favor. Overlooked ballot box found in Florida church cnn.com Every vote counts for presidential candidates Bush, Gore November 8, 2000 Web posted at: 1:18 p.m. EST (1818 GMT) MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- With the outcome of the neck-and-neck presidential race hinging on the outcome of a recount in Florida, there may be a few more votes to consider. The director of a church preschool said she discovered a padlocked ballot box at the church hall Wednesday morning. Officials with the Miami-Dade County elections office were said to be on the way to retrieve the box, which was apparently left behind by precinct workers. "It's a very interesting scenario," pastor Nebel Buchanan told CNN. GOP presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush holds a 1,784-vote lead over Democratic candidate Vice President Al Gore in Florida. Because the lead is so narrow, Florida law mandates a recount -- which election officials say must be completed by the end of the business day on Thursday. - Preschool director Tatleen Francis told CNN she discovered the ballot box shortly after 7 a.m. Wednesday when she arrived at work. "It's sad because it shows we're not getting the truth," said Francis. "If you're supposed to do a job and represent the country and the people, it's very discouraging." Francis said she saw the box through a door window across the hall from her office. She said she unlocked the door, went into the fellowship hall where balloting took place, picked up the box and examined it. "I shook it. It was full, and it was very heavy," Francis added. She notified a lawyer she described as someone she knows who works for a U.S. congressman, Alcee Hastings. She said the lawyer also works for the Democratic Party. Francis said the lawyer called an elections official to notify the board of the ballot box left behind. "The people who took the time to vote, their votes were not counted," she added. "It will discourage them." Buchanan described his congregation and the neighborhood as being largely African-American and West Indian. He claimed most residents are registered Democrats.