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

To: Bill who wrote (4179)	12/1/2000 3:25:29 PM
From: Windsock	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

More Republican voting fraud. This time the R's actually removed the ballot requests from the county elections office and then returned them, nicely doctored up. Stuff the ballots over here in friendly county, stop the vote count in friendly country. A very effective -- but illegal -- electoral technique. nytimes.com "TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Democratic voters filed a lawsuit Friday against Martin County's canvassing board in an attempt to throw out 9,773 absentee ballots, most of which were cast for George W. Bush. If a judge rules to disqualify all of the ballots, Bush could lose 6,294 votes, while Democrat Al Gore could lose 3,479. If the state then accepts the new totals, it could help the vice president overcome Bush's 537-vote statewide lead. In a case similar to one filed Nov. 17 against Seminole County, the voters claim Republican Party officials were allowed to alter ballot request forms by adding voter identification numbers to applications that were left blank. But Gary Farmer, one of the lawyers who filed the suit, said the Martin County situation was more serious because elections officials allowed the GOP to actually remove the request forms from the office. The action allowed Republicans ``unfettered and unsupervised access to these official public records,'' the lawsuit said."