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

To: gao seng who wrote (72941)	11/13/2000 3:20:34 PM
From: jhild	Respond to of 769670

I read that account earlier. It wasn't a county wide election that you are citing either. Whether or not this was the right thing to do, I can't really judge. But we have before us a pivotal election count for the entire country in Florida. If you are arguing that it should be quashed, I say let the whole thing play out. That is by far the best thing for the good of us all. The rush to stop the process looks quite unseemly. As a side note, I would guess that Bush and Harris will face fierce re-election bids as a result of this shenanigan. I hope that they both lose on account of it. Likely Ms. LePore will regardless.

To: gao seng who wrote (72941)	11/13/2000 3:41:34 PM
From: E	Respond to of 769670

It is more than a tad suspect. It is the usual: self interest ruling reason and principle. Re the absentee vote: New Dispute Over Florida Applications For Ballots [Today's NYT, Excerpts (because it won't paste. Anybody know why that is?)] WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. An election official in Seminole County, Florida allowed Republican Party operatives to correct errors on thousands of applications for absentee ballots for Republicans, a Democratic lawyer said tongiht. [He] said the applications were missing required information and would otherwise have been invalid. But... the election official allowed Republican campaign workers to set up shop in her office and work for several days to complete the forms... Democratic campaign officials... complained that their local officials had not been offered a similar opprtunity to correct errors in applications for absentee ballots for Democrats... The effect... was to provide thousands of absentee ballots to Republican voters whose applications should have been rejected.... (What happened is that the Republicans left off voter id numbers from the ballot applications they sent out and the Dems didn't, so the Repubs "corrected" the ballot applications when they got them, instead of tossing them out as would be usual. I can see why the Republicans felt it to be fair to "correct" the faulty applications; one does feel it to be SO unfair if a foolish lapse by functionaries disenfranchises thousands of voters!!! Doesn't one? <g> Unfortunately, the Democrats weren't offered the opportunity privately to review their ballot applications for correctness; and it can hardly not raise the question of whether other omissions besides the id number were remedied. After all, the application requests were handled, and corrected, not out in the open by a bi-partisan group of the sort that his doing the Florida hand-counting of ballots, but in a private room containing only Republican operatives. So I can see how the Democrats might feel a bit miffed, can't you, gao seng?) nytimes.com