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

To: Gordon A. Langston who wrote (100525)	12/4/2000 4:01:25 PM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 769670

Good try! But me thinks you got the wrong Ryan Mitchell. Mitchell was in the company of GOP operative Michael Leach, and assisted Leach in affixing voter IDs to Seminole County's absentee ballots, this after the county voting supervisor, Sandra Goard, had her staff separate the rejected GOP ballots from the pile of Democrat and Independent ballots which were rejected because no voter ID was included. What I find extremely msyterious, aside from the fact 550 Democrat ballots were rejected while the GOP got to kick in an extra 2000-4000 that would have otherwise been rejected, is both Leach and Mitchell were doing this over a 15-day span while operating in the same office where the county's voter database and chief election technology officer's files, codes, keys and whatever were stored. Consider the following: >>>The law says that only the voter, the voter's legal guardian or a family member--not a third party--can complete application forms for absentee ballots. 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. 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 From the below, it appears like Leach's hero president is Richard M. Nixon. Anyone else wonder if Leach, and his cohort, Ryan Mitchell, took a dirty trick or two out of Nixon's playbook while they were hanging out in Seminole County's back room? Remember--and you've seen it from some of the posting on this thread: Bush has to win at all costs! And speaking of the county's database, were both Leach and Mitchell computer savvy? We know now, presuming the below that Leach is the webmaster below, that Leach has a website and a police background. We can't even find Mitchell who appears to be on the lam. garnet.acns.fsu.edu