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To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (99693)	12/3/2000 10:20:44 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Another consideration: Did all these voters actually request the application or where they sent unsolicited to the voters? Sending them unsolicited is also against Florida law. > I'm not sure that your statement is true. Could you cite the law if you get a chance. < leg.state.fl.us 104.047 Absentee ballots and voting; violations.-- (1) Any person who provides or offers to provide, and any person who accepts, a pecuniary or other benefit in exchange for distributing, ordering, requesting, collecting, delivering, or otherwise physically possessing absentee ballots, except as provided in ss. 101.6105-101.694, is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. (2) Except as provided in s. 101.62 or s. 101.655, any person who requests an absentee ballot on behalf of an elector is guilty of a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. leg.state.fl.us 104.012 Consideration for registration; interference with registration; soliciting registrations for compensation; alteration of registration application.-- ... (4) A person who alters the voter registration application of any other person, without the other person's knowledge and consent, commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084. leg.state.fl.us 104.031 False declaration to secure assistance in preparing ballot.--Any person who makes a false declaration for assistance in voting, or in the preparation of his or her ballot, in any election is guilty of a misdemeanor of the first degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082 or s. 775.083.

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (99693)	12/3/2000 10:23:59 PM
From: Ellen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

latimes.com [excerpt] Democrat Who Filed Suit Cites Unequal Opportunity Jacobs said he wasn't so much bothered by the fact that the Republicans were allowed to fix the applications--although he insisted that it violated state law--as he was that Goard didn't extend the same opportunity to Democrats who made mistakes in their applications. "If she had given access to others . . . then it would be a little harder to complain," he said. "She didn't do that, and that's what's so important in this instance. . . . She walked hand in hand with the Republican Party in Seminole County to get out the vote for the Republicans." He said he knew of at least one family in which a woman who was a Republican filled out the application and received her ballot normally, while her husband, a Democrat, hand-wrote an application and didn't receive his. The man later was able to get a ballot after complaining to election officials. Jacobs speculated that "hundreds, perhaps thousands" of other Democratic voters did not receive the absentee ballots they requested. "So it's very one-sided, very selective and very well could have affected the outcome of the race," he said.