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To: amadeus who wrote (98083)	12/1/2000 11:35:15 PM
From: JamesB	Respond to of 769667

It happens all over Saturday November 25 2:22 PM ET Judge Had Absentee-Form Problem Too SANFORD, Fla. (AP) - The Seminole County judge presiding over a Democratic activist's lawsuit to dismiss 4,700 presidential absentee ballots had absentee ballot problems of her own in her campaign this summer. A campaign worker says he filled in voter-identification numbers on about 3,000 absentee ballot requests that originated with the campaign of Circuit Judge Debra Nelson. That is similar to what allegedly happened in the absentee ballot dispute that is the subject of the lawsuit before her. In the lawsuit Harry Jacobs filed Nov. 17, two GOP operatives are accused of altering about 4,700 absentee requests by adding voter-ID numbers, salvaging them after Elections Supervisor Sandy Goard declared them invalid. Most of the requests were from Republicans. Jacobs is asking that those ballots be thrown out. If Nelson agrees, that would mean a 5,000-vote swing in favor of Vice President Al Gore (news - web sites), enough to give him the election. The difference between what happened in Nelson's campaign and the presidential election is location. In Nelson's case, a campaign worker, James Daly III, of Longwood, added the numbers while sitting at his dining-room table and at a weekend home in Titusville. It was only after he finished were the forms delivered to the supervisor of elections. In the presidential election, the Republicans allegedly made changes at Goard's office. Nelson, 46, disclosed within the first minute of the first hearing in the Jacobs case that she had used absentee ballots in her campaign. However, she did not say anything about a campaign worker writing in voter-identification numbers. ``I don't know anything about them,'' she said Friday. Her campaign manager, Bob Lewis, said he did not tell her about the glitch because it wasn't important. Under the law, only a voter, a member of the immediate family or guardian may request an absentee ballot. Lewis said he did not believe that adding the number ``violated the spirit of the law at all.'' News of Nelson's absentee ballot problems caught attorneys in the Jacobs case off guard, but none said they would ask Nelson to recuse herself. Nelson, who was first appointed to the bench in May 1999 by Gov. Jeb Bush, won her election Sept. 5 by a nearly 3-to-1 ratio over insurance defense attorney Sylvia ``Sly'' Grunor. dailynews.yahoo.com

To: amadeus who wrote (98083)	12/2/2000 4:53:17 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769667

Please note that applications for ballots were taken home. It is not alleged that ballots were taken home or handled by anyone but the voter and the election officials when counting. The the voters whose ID numbers had been missing from the Applications due to a Republican Party computer error, were able to vote because the party recognized the computer glitch and were fairly allowed to fix this unique and innocuous problem. In essence, the Republicans, by correcting the applications so ballots could be sent out, marked, and returned for counting, were acting to prevent the disenfranchisment of eligible voters who wished indeed to vote. No false numbers placed...no bogus voters...just folks getting out the vote. Dan B