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

To: Ben Wa who wrote (1067)	11/18/2000 5:19:50 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

Excerpts from Gov. Racicot's Statement on Florida Vote Fraud Source: Newsmax.com Published: Saturday November 18, 2000; 3:39 PM ET Author: Newsmax.com Posted on 11/18/2000 13:02:28 PST Saturday November 18, 2000; 3:39 PM ET Excerpts from Gov. Racicot's Statement on Florida Vote Fraud Montana Gov. Mark Rasicot, a one-time army prosecutor and former attorney general, has detailed charges of massive Democratic Party vote fraud in the Florida recount and absentee ballot tally. Here are excerpts of Gov. Racicot's statement to the press Saturday afternoon in Austin, Texas: "We now have clear and and convincing evidence, in fact, in my judgement it's beyond that, that in Palm Beach County and Broward County the hand counting of the ballots that is ongoing is not only fundamentally flawed, it is becoming completely untrustworthy....." "First of all, there's the taping of chads to ballots. We have observers in Florida who have noted and they have completed affidavits that a taped chad has been taped over the hole where the ballot or the notation could be made for a vote for Governor Bush. We have at least two witnesses to this." "And we also know that the election official there, the supervisor, Theresa LaPore, has simply brushed off these concerns and these detections....." "We have found Bush ballots, our observers have found Bush ballots in the Gore piles. Both last night and this morning, Bush ballots were found in a Gore pile to be counted as Gore votes. And a Democratic observer found these and pointed it out." "And the Democratic observer later apologized to the Republican counterpart, telling him that the stack of ballots was different last night, and in his words 'had been sabotaged.' We have no idea how often this has occured." "Observers picked up a handful of Gore ballots and found several Bush ballots. And instead of pulling those ballots out, Theresa LaPore stacked all of the ballots and put them in a box without any explanation to the counters...." "We have instances where ballots have post-it notes stuck on them over that portion of the ballot where you would make your choice for president...." "In Broward county, we have Democrat observers who are observing one day and they're ballot inspectors for the county on the next day....." "We have affidavits from Florida residents serving as Republican observers stating that there is confusion, multiple touching and passing of the ballots between inspectors, moving precinct ballots from one table to the next after the ballots were already counted...." "In Broward County, there's chad on the floor, on the counting tables, on the chairs. There's no reasonable assurance to the voters that the canvassing board has a system in place to ensure the integrity and security of the ballots. The canvassing board ignored a request by Republicans to stop the counting until they could do so." "Election officials, specifically Judge Lee, have simply expressed that the chad should be brushed on the floor...." "It's often very, very difficult for those who are aboard ships like the U.S.S. George Washington or the U.S.S. Ticonderoga or the U.S.S. Simpson to vote. Yet throughout Florida thousands of servicemen and women stationed on ships or stationed abroad did their part in our democracy. They cast their votes -- or so they thought." "But last night we learned how far the vice president's campaign will go to win this election. And I'm very sorry to say that the vice president's lawyers have gone to war, in my judgement, against the men and women who serve in our armed forces." "In an effort to win at any cost, the Democrats have launched a statewide effort to throw out as many military ballots as they can. Last night across Florida, they threw out between 900 and 1,100 votes cast by military men and women." "In Duval County, for example, 44 votes, mostly military, were thrown out. The man who would be their commander-in-chief is fighting to take away the votes from the people that he would command." "At the same time today's Miami Herald reported that 39 felons, 32 of whom are registered Democrats, three of whom are independents and the remainder Republicans, illegally cast absentee ballots in Broward and Miami-Dade Counties in the November 7 election."