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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (99588)	12/3/2000 5:10:13 PM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Perhaps Nadine, however, I believe even in your hypothetical case, fraud would have to be determined to exist before you threw out the ballots. In footnote 54 on p. 33 of its Nov. 21 decision, the Florida Supreme Court cited with approval the following quotation from its decision Boardman v. Esteva, 323 So.2d 259, 268-69 (Fla. 1975): "When the voters have done all that the statute has required them to do, they will not be disfranchised solely on the basis of the failure of the election officials to observe directory statutory instructions."