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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Michael M who wrote (93693)	11/29/2000 10:47:18 AM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Gore's ace in the hole........A Florida judge set up a fast-paced schedule for a Democratic lawsuit accusing Republicans of tampering with 4,700 absentee ballot applications in Seminole County, near Orlando. The lawsuit asks that all 15,000 absentee ballots cast in Seminole County be thrown out. Since Bush received nearly 4,800 more of those votes than Gore, invalidating all of them would easily give Gore the victory in Florida and the presidency.

To: Michael M who wrote (93693)	11/29/2000 11:12:57 AM
From: Mighty_Mezz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

the documents are "applications" for ballots, NOT ballots. There is a law in Florida against altering an application w/o knowledge and permission of the applicant. If the faulty applications sent in by Republicans had not been altered by Republican pary officials, those absentee ballots would not have been sent out and Bush's vote count would have been reduced by a few thousand votes. Republican party officials should not have been allowed to "fix" mistakes to ensure those Republicans got absentee ballots. To paraphrase some Repubs, "If you're too stupid to fill out the application correctly, you don't get a ballot." ... Mezz -