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To: Ahda who wrote (60971)	11/13/2000 7:19:36 AM
From: long-gone	Respond to of 116762

12/04/2000 Chicanery Roils Election 2000 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- By Kelly Patricia O’Meara omeara@insightmag.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A recount, extended polling hours, cigarettes traded for votes and a Clinton invitation urging noncitizens to vote have led to charges of fraud in the presidential election. Even Ann Bancroft’s performance in The Miracle Worker didn’t come close to the level of drama Americans witnessed Election Day when, within hours, presidential candidates Al Gore and George W. Bush both won and lost the state of Florida. Since then the nation has taken a kind of collective inhale as the 2000 presidential bout moved into the 15th round. While vote fraud was being whispered elsewhere, the debacle that unfolded around balloting in West Palm Beach, Fla., raised questions among Democrats about the vulnerability of the voting process. Never mind that both Democrats and Republicans in Florida approved the ballot cards prior to the election, the old Clinton/Gore impeachment fighters were out in force to say the process established by a local Democratic election official was improper — if not illegal — and to press for legal action that would give 3,000 votes to Gore. In the Palm Beach case, “fraud” and “cheating” were not words being used to describe what appeared to be votes cast inadvertently for Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan in what historically has been a liberal Democratic district. But there is no doubt that this election, like most before, did suffer its share of election shenanigans. For instance, as reported by WorldNetDaily on Nov. 6, President Clinton signed a pre-election mailer, paid for and distributed by the California Democratic Party, urging Hispanics there to get out and vote. The mailer read: “Here is your personal Voter Identification Card. Sign your name, then detach your card. Bring your card with you to your polling place on Election Day. It will help your voting go more smoothly.” On the surface the detachable card seemed harmless and might even be helpful to inexperienced voters. The problem is that some who were sent these mailers are not U.S. citizens and, therefore, not eligible to vote(cont) insightmag.com