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To: amadeus who wrote (100270)	12/4/2000 1:18:13 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 769667

>>> Goard acknowledged that law during her deposition. "A representative of the Republican Party was the one who was going ahead and resubmitting [ballots] after having added information to those cards, without the knowledge of the Democratic Party, and without any provision of the statute that says they could do so. Isn't that correct?" Richman asked in the deposition. "Yes," Goard said, over the objections of her lawyers. Democratic attorneys say the actions of election officials in Seminole County raise troubling questions. For example, the two men representing the Republican Party worked for more than a week in a room that also houses 18 computers that are linked to the election office's mainframe computer--its voting database. GOP attorneys say that doesn't matter, because as far as anyone knows, the two men did not have the passwords to those computers. [NOTE: See PartyTime notes below.] No System of Checks and Balances Lawyers challenging the presidential vote also point out that the elections office has no records confirming that the two men even corrected the absentee ballot applications with the right numbers. And the attorneys raise the possibility that some Republicans in Seminole County voted twice, once by absentee and a second time in person. While they so far have no proof of that, Richman cited "statistically unbelievable" returns in three precincts. For example, a recount of ballots conducted last week in Seminole County resulted in a net gain of 98 votes for Bush. According to Richman, 88 of those 98 came from a single precinct, suggesting, he claimed, further impropriety. Republicans deny that there is any evidence of double voting. But the county's handling of the Republican absentee ballots "is clearly an illegal action," attorney Richman said. "It is just plain cheating."<<< latimes.com ***PartyTime Notes: 1) So who is Michael Leach? Well, if this is his website below--and it appears that it is--he's into things presidential, with Richard Nixon his hero: garnet.acns.fsu.edu The fact that he has his own website is at least some indication that Leach is computer savvy. With a police background, perhaps he's proficient at getting past passwords in computers. 2) Who is Ryan Mitchell, Leach's colleague who helped him affix voter IDs to Seminole's GOP-only absentee ballots? Where is he? Why can't he be located? Will he be desposed in the Seminole County matter? If anyone knows who he is or where he is, I'd sure like to know. 3) It might be moot that Leach and/or Mitchell are computer savvy and could access the county's databank. Depositions from Seminole County election workers note that the two were left alone in the county's databank office with the computers turned on because the office was training new employees. 4) How ironic that these GOPwingers were left alone in the same office as Seminole County's chief election technology officer. 5) Was Seminole County compromised? I don't know, but hard and tough questions need be asked.