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

To: TraderGreg who wrote (2637)	11/19/2000 8:59:46 AM
From: Vendit™	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 6710

So how many actual counts have been completed? 1- The election itself (Bush won) 2- Gore asked for recount (Bush won) 3- Gore asked for a second recount (Bush won) 4- Gore asks for hand recount (Bush will win) Schwarzkopf, GOP Criticize Rejection of Military Votes Saturday, November 18, 2000 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — George W. Bush's margin among voters who sent ballots from overseas should have been even larger, say Bush backers including retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf. While gaining 1,380 votes to Al Gore's 750 from the overseas absentees, the Bush campaign complained about the large numbers of ballots that were thrown out, often for a lack of an overseas postmark. Schwarzkopf, the Desert Storm commander who lives in Florida, said Saturday, "These armed forces ballots should be allowed to be tallied." And Sen. John Warner, R-Va., a veteran and former Secretary of the Navy, also criticized the rejection of some 1,400 ballots during county-by-county tallies. "It is a very sad day in our country when the men and women of the armed forces are serving abroad and facing danger on a daily basis ... yet because of some technicality out of their control, they are denied the right to vote for the president of the United States who will be their commander in chief," Schwarzkopf said in a statement released by the Bush campaign. The final absentee totals were handed out without comment, just after 1 p.m., by a state aide. That was in contrast to a ceremony planned Saturday afternoon in the Florida Cabinet meeting room in which Secretary of State Katherine Harris would have officially certified the victor in the battle for Florida's 25 electoral votes. The Florida Supreme Court on Friday blocked Harris from certifying the results and scheduled oral arguments for Monday. Bush's Florida lead grew to 930 votes with the gain of 630 from the overseas results. "Bush didn't get what people expected," Gore campaign spokesman Doug Hattaway said. "He got like 600, and we're happy about that." Hattaway rejected GOP allegations of a Democratic effort to target military ballots that Bush thought would mainly go to him. "Both sides had observers there and it's a very bipartisan process," Hattaway said. He said he knew of no Democratic strategy to challenge the overseas ballots. Warner, now chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, wrote Defense Secretary William S. Cohen about military ballots rejected for lacking postmarks. Warner wrote that the missing postmarks were the "duty not of the voter but of the military postal clerk," adding that "human error, as well as time and operational constraints, results in some mail not being postmarked." County observers argued over how to interpret a pre-election memo by Harris that said overseas ballots "must be received by the supervisors of elections by midnight Friday. They are not required, however, to be postmarked on or prior to last Tuesday (Nov. 7)." Scott McMillen, an Orlando attorney representing the Democrats in the Seminole County vote, said some ballots were accepted without any postmark at all. "I think the state law is pretty clear," McMillen said Saturday. "I didn't see a trend for or against military ballots by the Democrats. What I saw was some people trying to follow the rules exactly and some people saying that the canvassing board could interpret the rules to let in the maximum number of ballots."