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

To: TideGlider who wrote (98946)	12/2/2000 9:48:35 PM
From: ColtonGang	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Here's your man ........``The allegations of vote fraud have always been out there, but I believe they are much worse this year,'' said David Leahy, Miami-Dade elections supervisor. A VARIETY OF EXCUSES Some preferred Miami's exciting brand of politics Non-resident voters gave all kinds of excuses for continuing to vote in Miami: Traffic. Tradition. Love of Miami's blood-and-guts politics. Some say they voted for Miami Mayor Xavier Suarez, others for former Mayor Joe Carollo. All of them interviewed for this story said they had no connection to the campaigns. Some say they were just too busy to change their registration. And some say they believed they really lived in the city. Pedro and Lillian Roque moved out of Miami more than 10 years ago to a house at 13382 NW Second Ter. in unincorporated Dade west of Sweetwater. That's at the edge of the Everglades -- 13 miles from their old precinct. On Election Day, the Roques drive for a half-hour into the city to vote at their old precinct, Iglesia Bautista Resurreccion at Southwest 27th Avenue and 23rd Street. The Roques say they thought they were still eligible to vote in Miami elections because ``Miami'' is the address on their mail. But Lillian Roque also said: ``When we moved, I couldn't vote for the people I liked here.'' Whatever their reasons, illegal voters have one thing in common: No one has to worry much about being caught. Leahy says his office -- overwhelmed by the volume of Dade voters, hamstrung by laws meant to encourage voting -- is all but ``helpless'' to enforce residency rules. Voting is more or less on the honor system, he said. [Miami Herald}