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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: CYBERKEN who wrote (2567)11/18/2000 4:18:54 PM
From: Windsock  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 6710
 
Re: "With the tawdry attempt at election theft through these phony manual recounts, and now the organized (and apparently successful) effort to disenfranchise a large percentage of the ballots of military citizens serving overseas...."

The Rabid Right is getting desperate, spewing false charges and flaming words to poison the environment.

In the meantime, their is a real problem with unlawful absentee ballots in Seminole County, a predominately Republican county. The elections supervisor admits that R's altered Republican applications that were invalid and then ballots were distributed based on the altered applications. A Dem is challenging the 4700 ballots involved to have them disqualified or if the ballots can not be identified then requests that all about 15,000 absentee ballots be disqualified.

This action is in violation of an interpretation of the FL law by the SOS predecessor of current SOS Katherine Harris. SOS Harris has "No Comment.

An article in the San Francisco Chronicle reprinted from the NY Times:

sfgate.com