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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (128605)	11/15/2000 7:15:53 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1583406

Isn't that what's popularly known as a red herring, Jim? Or is it OK for the House to be investigating some random election a year later, as long as a Republican lost and they can pin some fundraising "scandal" on the winner, but for W, who spent the most money ever, it's different, it's all got to be wrapped up in a week? Another story for your enjoyment: DASCHLE SEES PROBE END IN SIGHT 400 INACTIVE N.O. VOTERS UNDER REVIEW New Orleans Times Picayune, Sept 24 1997, once more, almost a year after the election in question. After another day of partisan bickering, Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle said late Tuesday that he and Republicans are near agreement on a process to conclude the Senate investigation into Louisiana's disputed election. Daschle, D-S.D., would not provide details or a time frame for the probe's end, but said Republicans have essentially agreed on a process for completing the Senate Rules Committee probe that is "totally agreeable to me." He said particulars of the plan should be announced by Senate Rules Committee Chairman John Warner, R-Va., who could not be reached for comment Tuesday night. The Rules Committee is investigating Republican Woody Jenkins' allegations that his 5,788-vote loss to Democrat Mary Landrieu resulted from fraud and corruption. Democrats pulled out of the investigation in late June, saying no credible evidence had been found to support Jenkins' complaint. Democrats resumed their protest Tuesday, using parliamentary rules to force several committees, including the Senate Finance Committee's hearings on the Internal Revenue Service, to abruptly shut down after two hours of testimony. Warner said earlier that his committee staff remained in New Orleans on Tuesday working with former FBI agents to review two of the "really significant remaining areas" in the panel's investigation. He declined to say what those areas are or when he expected the probe to end. Aides to Warner said the panel is reviewing a number of areas, including the status of 400 voters in Orleans Parish who were on inactive lists because they had not voted in two previous elections but did not fill out required forms before voting Nov. 5. If there was fraud in the election, as Jenkins alleges, that would be one area that unscrupulous people with knowledge of inactive lists could use to cast improper votes, the Warner aides said. GOP aides said that a review by the General Accounting Office of election records from 34 precincts found that in one precinct 100 votes were incorrectly credited to Landrieu, but that it appeared to be a result of a clerical mistake. In other precincts, there were discoveries of one to five questionable votes, but they fit no pattern, the aides said. Sen. Wendell Ford, D-Ky., the ranking Democrat on the Rules Committee, said that half of 50 questionable votes found by the GAO were in districts carried by Jenkins. "They are obviously still looking for something, and they keep repeating themselves," Ford said. "They are setting a precedent that is very, very bad." Warner said in an early afternoon meeting with reporters that he is undecided about whether to call another hearing to follow up on issues raised last week when representatives of three Louisiana gambling firms testified for nearly seven hours about their election activities. Warner is trying to decide whether the information can come from phone calls to the gambling representatives or would be more easily obtained at a formal hearing, his aides said.