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

To: The Philosopher who wrote (2657)	11/27/2000 11:03:22 PM
From: Qone0	Respond to of 3887

Should Gore concede poll on si Subject 37489

To: The Philosopher who wrote (2657)	11/27/2000 11:41:01 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3887

The case has been moved to Wednesday and to Tallahassee. dailynews.yahoo.com Monday November 27 1:25 PM ET Seminole Vote Challenge Moved to Florida Capital SANFORD, Fla. (Reuters) - A lawsuit seeking to throw out 15,000 absentee ballots cast in Florida's Seminole County was transferred on Monday to the state court in Tallahassee handling other challenges in Florida's presidential election, a court official said. Throwing out those votes in Seminole could swing the state from Republican George W. Bush (news - web sites) to Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites). The case had been set to go to trial on Wednesday in the Seminole County Circuit Court in east-central Florida. It was moved to the Leon County Circuit Court in the state capital of Tallahassee by agreement of all parties involved, Deputy Court Administrator Kate Leach said. Bush was certified by state election officials on Sunday as the winner in Florida by 537 votes, giving him enough electoral votes to claim the presidency if the results withstand a flurry of legal challenges. Bush won 10,006 absentee votes in Seminole County to Gore's 5,209. A Seminole County Democrat, Harry Jacobs, sued on Nov. 17 to disqualify all of the county's absentee ballots, something that could throw Florida to Gore. Jacobs alleged that the county election supervisor, a Republican, broke the law by allowing Republican party volunteers to fill in missing data on about 4,700 absentee ballot requests that might otherwise would have been rejected as incomplete. Applicants were supposed to list their voter identification numbers on the ballot request forms, but many did not and the Republican Party workers filled them in at the election supervisor's office, Jacobs' lawsuit alleged. Florida's Republican Party and several absentee voters joined the lawsuit and asked Seminole County Circuit Court Judge Debra Nelson to dismiss it. Jacobs asked that it be reassigned to another judge. Nelson held a brief hearing to discuss those requests on Monday and during a recess ``both sides got together and agreed for the entire case to be moved to Leon County,'' Leach said. The court in the state capital often hears complaints contesting Florida election results, even if they arise from other judicial districts. Gore's lawyers filed documents in that court on Monday contesting presidential elections in three other Florida counties, Miami-Dade, Nassau and Palm Beach, saying thousands of votes there were not counted and could have changed the outcome of the election in Gore's favor.