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To: mishedlo who wrote (61604)	11/20/2000 6:42:19 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Mishedlo, Richard, where are all the law abiding Republicans complaining about the law being ignored on the absentee ballot issue? I seem to recall a complaint about the Democrats being in favor of the law only when it is is their favor. Not a single Republican has protested this unlawful activity. Rather hypocritical isn't it? Didn't know you were interested <G>. Which unlawful activity are you specifically referring to? As with the precinct votes, they shouldn't count the absentee votes that don't meet the criteria as required by law, assuming that it was the voter that screwed up. That is, if they weren't signed, witnessed, clear, et cetera. My personal feeling probably goes deeper in that I have trouble with the concept of "trying to determine what the voter meant". I don't think we should be in that business, either. JM2C, Dave

To: mishedlo who wrote (61604)	11/20/2000 7:56:14 PM
From: richard surckla	Respond to of 93625

mishedlo... "Richard, where are all the law abiding Republicans complaining about the law being ignored on the absentee ballot issue? I seem to recall a complaint about the Democrats being in favor of the law only when it is is their favor. Not a single Republican has protested this unlawful activity. Rather hypocritical isn't it?" mishedlo, Maybe I'm misreading your post, but the Republicans, including myself, did complain that it is unfair to disallow the military absentee ballots because of postmark dates. What are you talking about? Further explanation required.

To: mishedlo who wrote (61604)	11/20/2000 9:04:11 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Respond to of 93625

misheldo: 6) He has seen preliminary results from the hand counts and knows that he can easily overcome an additional 1,000 possible Bush votes. I tend to agree with you for several reasons. -- Voters News Service got it right on election night to a degree of confidence of greater than 98-99% IMO. The general electorate polled that night thought they voted for Gore in numbers large enough for him to win election by about 1%. -- It appears that there is a collective 25-30K ballots in those democratic 3 counties to be hand counted due to 1 corner hanging chad or dimpled ballots which count under Texas hand counting rules that will minimally break 60/40 for Gore or about another 5K votes. -- Broward County elections supervisor Jane Carroll, the lone Republican member at age 70, just up and quit today. I guess the idea of Bush losing hand vote count under her watch was too much to bear. -- AP has got it down to 770 votes as we speak. There are almost 90% of precints in Dade county that should give about another 300 votes (Gore had gained 34 votes after 62 of 614 precincts were counted) and Palm Beach gas about 350 dimpled ballots total with a 200 vote edge for Gore awaiting FL SC order to count them. Very unoffically, it's back down less than 300 votes with thousands of potential Gore votes still to be counted john

To: mishedlo who wrote (61604)	11/20/2000 9:21:50 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 93625

RE:"6) He has seen preliminary results from the hand counts and knows that he can easily overcome an additional 1,000 possible Bush votes. Ding Ding. My vote is # 6. This does not bode well for Bush IMHO." --- I think it was a manuever. Allow the absentees and then you have to take the dimples because of the former... A gamble... Jim

To: mishedlo who wrote (61604)	11/21/2000 12:01:22 AM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

mishedlo... "Not a single Republican has protested this unlawful activity. Rather hypocritical isn't it?" You didn't answer my previous request of you to be more definitive. Seeing your answer to Dave B allowed me to come back in with a little more understanding. You said, "No postmark, no can count." Federal law says, "No postmark, can count." To show you what a rotten bunch the Democrats are, the FL Attorney General sent a memo to all the districts regarding the military ballots stating that they should carefully review the ballots and give any benefit of the doubt where there is no post mark, as long as they are in compliance with everything else, including signature, witness, and date, so that ballot could count. Sounds good so far. The Federal absentee ballot form has a place where it asks for the date in the following manner (Date:__________). The Florida form does not ask for a date in this manner or any other manner. The only way a date gets on the Florida absentee ballot is if the voter just writes it in anywhere he can find room. This does you proud meshedlo, Scumbria, Parrot, and all you other Democrats... finding ways to deny our military people of their votes. You can walk the streets holding your heads up high, with large badges pinned to your chests with DEMOCRAT stamped on your forehead while declaring... "I AM PROUD TO BE A DEMOCRAT! I HELPED STOP OUR MILITARY ABSENTEE VOTES IN FLORIDA."