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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carolyn who wrote (58)	11/12/2000 11:46:02 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3887

GOP's list of voter irregularities in Milwaukee Last Updated: Nov. 10, 2000 Following is the text of a list of allegations of voter irregularity and fraud in Milwaukee collected by the Wisconsin Republican Party and turned over to the Milwaukee County district attorney's office on Friday: Incident: Marquette students were seen taking 10 or more ballots at a time. Incident: Ballots were taken out of the polling place. Incident: Individuals entered the voting place with more than one addressed envelope and asked which one would allow them to vote in that location. Incident: A voter was asked by another voter to vouch for her residence in the ward. He said he wouldn't, and the woman appealed to another person in line. The other person claimed to poll workers that she is his roommate. Incident: A voter was told that she had already voted upon arriving at her polling place. She was asked to sign an affidavit verifying who she was and was not told what happened to her first ballot. Incident: Polling place had a "help yourself" pile of ballots. Voters could have easily voted more than once. Incident: Ballots were left sitting on a chair prior to being fed through the machine. Poll workers were seen looking through them. Incident: UWM student voted on campus. Another voter showed his off campus address to a poll worker. The poll worker told him, "you can't vote here, put down (address of dorm) instead." Same student said friends were bragging about having voted for Gore five or six times. Incident: Voter was told that his marks on the ballot were too dark, and asked to re-do the ballot. The voter did not see the other ballot destroyed. Incident: Ballot machine was not operating. The ballots were being stacked in a pile for workers to run through later. Incident: Ballots may have been left unattended in some areas of Milwaukee due to a broken down truck. Incident: Marquette students voted 5 or 6 times for Al Gore. Incident: Two ballots were given to a man wearing a Milwaukee County Public Schools jacket. When he tried to return a ballot, he was told that he should have two. Incident: Poll workers told a voter to "vote democrat". Incident: A voter tried to register to vote at the 4th Precinct in the 72nd Ward of Milwaukee. He was not asked for identification or proof of address. Poll workers tried to prevent him from filling out a registration card. Registration cards that he observed only had a signature, no address. Incident: Ward 296, District 16, called the city clerk to verify what was needed to re-register at a new address. When they re-registered, they were not asked for any proof of residence. Incident: Non-registered voters were not asked for identification at the 6th District polling place. Incident: A new voter was not required to show any identification at the Cumberland School in Whitefish Bay. Incident: A Marquette student had moved since voting in the April primary. Poll workers told her "not to worry about it and just go ahead and vote" when she attempted to change her address. Incident: A voter was given three different ballots due to mistakes he made on them. The two previous ballots were not seen destroyed. Incident: Ballot machine in Wauwatosa was broken, and until the machine was fixed, ballots were stacked next to the machine. jsonline.com

To: Carolyn who wrote (58)	11/12/2000 2:01:36 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 3887

I too thought that huge numbers of absentee ballots were still to be received, but after some investigation I am learning otherwise. For example, the much discussed absentee ballots in Florida involve only a few overseas ballots that have not yet made it to the US. All the other absentee ballots, including overseas ballots received earlier are included already in the unofficial results that have Bush ahead by some 300 votes. It seems to me that the vast majority of the absentee ballots have already been included in the unofficial counts, which are reported by CNN and have Gore up by 222,000 votes nationwide. For example, California is often sited as a state where "one million absentee ballots are still to be counted". However, a check at the CNN site shows California with 100% of the precincts reporting with Gore winning it by a 54 to 42% margin over Bush. What am I missing? Where are you getting your information about large numbers of uncounted absentee ballots? I am very much interested, since I believe that only a President that wins the popular vote can claim legitimacy.