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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (8272)	12/3/2000 1:43:42 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 10042

Here's a Washington Post story from December 1st about the Seminole and Martin county suits: TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 1 –– Republican Party officials were wrongly permitted to correct hundreds of misprinted absentee ballot applications in Martin County, while Democratic voters were not given the same chance, a lawsuit filed today in Florida's capital contends. The lawsuit asks Circuit Court Judge Terry P. Lewis to throw out 9,773 absentee ballots, or, at a minimum, all the Republican ballots that the local election supervisor permitted to be corrected. Texas Gov. George W. Bush won 2,815 more absentee votes than Vice President Gore in the county. The Martin County case is the second such lawsuit filed by Democrats who contend that Republican election workers unfairly helped GOP voters. A similar complaint filed against Seminole County seeks the rejection of as many as 15,000 absentee ballots that favored Bush by nearly 2 to 1. With Bush ahead by 537 votes in the certified statewide totals, hearings are scheduled on both cases for Wednesday, before two different judges in separate Tallahassee courtrooms. At an emergency hearing late today, Lewis set a hurry-up schedule on the Martin County matter that will require attorneys to work through the weekend. Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls is due to begin a trial Saturday morning on an ambitious bid by the Gore campaign to require three South Florida counties to conduct manual recounts that the Democrats contend would show Gore won Florida's 25 electoral votes. In the Martin County lawsuit, Democratic voter Ronald Taylor charges that Peggy S. Robbins, the supervisor of elections, unlawfully allowed GOP workers to retrieve misprinted absentee ballot request forms, add the correct voter registration numbers and return them to Robbins's office. Attorney Edward S. Stafman called it a "massive fraud." Bush lawyers counter that Robbins broke no laws. They said the act of correcting the numbers on forms that were already completed and signed by voters was a straightforward, administrative action that simply assured voters that their ballots would then arrive. "Nothing in the statute prohibits a third party from assisting the elector in filling out the forms. There is no allegation that any signatures were fraudulently added or changed or that any information on the forms was inaccurate," stated a Republican response filed five hours after the lawsuit. Deputy election supervisor Emma Smith said in an interview that Republican workers were permitted to retrieve fewer than 500 request forms from the elections office and correct them. She said some of the forms mailed to likely GOP voters had been misprinted to include a birth date in place of the registration number required by state law. "After making the phone calls, the bottom line was, 'It's their application. They furnished the wrong information, the voter in good faith mailed it back to us expecting an absentee ballot.' We fulfilled the voters' request," Smith said. Smith reported that a very small number of Democratic voters' request forms failed to pass muster: "I think we had two rejected." She also said her office has been deluged with inquiries in recent days. "They're wanting to know, like me, what the ado is all about," Smith said. "We're as nonpartisan as we can be."

To: Roger A. Babb who wrote (8272)	12/3/2000 8:53:59 PM
From: George Coyne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

You've been stating for a couple of days now that one party HAD an advantage. Now you don't seem to know at all and are asking IF one party had an advantage. What is your game here?