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

To: Carolyn who wrote (2023)	11/22/2000 4:14:58 PM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

I believe the Bush campaign has filed suit in Tallahassee to have all military ballots counted. GOP presses for recount of military ballots By Scott Shepard, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, November 22, 2000 TALLAHASSEE -- With manual recounts threatening to cut into Republican Gov. George W. Bush's slim lead in Florida, his campaign pressed Tuesday for a recount of military absentee ballots that were rejected by local election officials. Surrogates for the Texas governor accused his Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, of deliberately trying to disenfranchise military personnel. Further, they questioned his credentials, under such circumstances, to serve as commander in chief should he ultimately be declared the winner in the presidential contest. Their accusations brought a sharp rebuke from Democratic Sen. Bob Kerrey of Nebraska, a Medal of Honor winner who lost part of a leg as a Navy SEAL in Vietnam. Kerrey said at a news conference in Miami that he came to Florida because of "irresponsible things being said" by the Bush campaign -- specifically, "that the vice president was stealing votes, that there's election fraud, that somehow he's incompetent to be commander in chief." He added, "Those are reckless, they're irresponsible and they're wrong." Just hours earlier, at a news conference on the steps of the Miami-Dade County government center, where election workers were recounting 654,000 votes in Florida's most populous county, Indiana Republican Rep. Steve Buyer urged Florida's local election officials to reconsider the rejected absentee ballots. Buyer, a veteran of the Gulf War, charged that the ballots were rejected by local canvass officials on the advice of Democratic lawyers who were deliberately "targeting" the military votes. "Now that is very disturbing," he said. Rep. John Sweeney, a Republican from New York who accompanied Buyer to Florida, said, "I propose to you that it would be very difficult to serve as a commander in chief when you try to disenfranchise those very defenders of freedom. And it's a sad day for America." Buyer, chairman of the House Armed Services military personnel subcommittee, said Florida "should extend its respect to the men and women who wear the uniform and are serving our country abroad" by accepting all their ballots, even those that are technically invalid. Kerrey offered a counterproposal that struck at the heart of the Bush campaign's opposition to the manual recounts of ballots in some heavily Democratic counties. "If they see unfairness in the balloting, . . . then I would urge them to look at what happened in Palm Beach as well, and ask themselves to answer the question, are they willing to do the same thing for an 85-year-old that simply didn't have the strength to punch through a punch card, that simply didn't have the capacity to get that done?" Kerrey asked. Bush campaign officials did not return telephone calls seeking a response. Florida counties rejected about 1,500 overseas ballots, nearly 40 percent of those received. Bush won those that were counted by a margin of nearly 2-to-1, widening his lead over Gore from 300 votes after machine recounts to 930 votes.