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To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (38566)	12/6/2000 2:11:36 PM
From: Mephisto	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 64865

Last week, I heard that formal legal complaints would be filed this week about the two counties in Florida where there may be problems. One is Seminole. And I can never remember the name of the other. As far as I know, complaints or whatever they are called will be filed with the Courts. I was busy and didn't watch the news last night so I don't know what is up today. Remeber though that The Supreme Court only set the case aside. They could pick it up again, I guess. M

To: Victor Lazlo who wrote (38566)	12/6/2000 2:47:21 PM
From: Mephisto	Respond to of 64865

The legal fights go forward. Yahoo news is a good source for information. Wednesday December 6 12:09 PM ET Florida Lawsuits Offer Gore Slim Hope in Election Fight By John Whitesides TALLAHASSEE, Fla. Two lawsuits brought by Florida voters offered a slim hope to Democrat Al Gore on Wednesday of overtaking Republican rival George W. Bush in his protracted fight to win the presidential election in the state and thus capture the White House. But Gore's main chance remained his appeal to the state Supreme Court against a Florida judge's rejection on Monday of the vice president's contest to the state's certified election result. That gave victory to Bush, the Texas governor, by just 537 votes out of the 6 million cast on Nov. 7. Attorneys for Gore, who said on Tuesday he remained ''optimistic'' of his chances, were set to file their brief by noon on Wednesday arguing why the state high court should overturn Judge N. Sanders Sauls' ruling. The Leon County Circuit Court judge denied the Gore camp's call for a court-supervised review of some 14,000 disputed ballots from Democratic-leaning Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties that Democrats believed could yield enough votes for Gore to overtake Bush's lead in the state that both candidates need to win the White House. The state Supreme Court, now seen as effectively being key to who will win the presidency, was set to hear oral arguments on the Gore appeal on Thursday. Busy Day In Court For Attorneys Meanwhile, Republican attorneys were hurrying from one courtroom to another on Wednesday morning in the state capital, Tallahassee, battling two lawsuits brought by voters in Seminole and Martin counties that alleged tampering with ballot applications and called for thousands of absentee votes to be thrown out. If the absentee ballots were thrown out, Bush would lose thousands of votes and therefore his win in the state. But legal experts viewed the cases as having a very slight chance of success. The extraordinary postelection drama arose from one of the most closely fought elections in U.S. history, and the clock was running out on Gore. Both Gore and Bush need Florida's 25 Electoral college votes to pass the 270 electoral votes required to win the presidency. Electors must be named by Dec. 12, and they vote on Dec. 18. Bush has sought to remain above the fray, pressing ahead with plans to move into the White House and build his Cabinet after receiving his first regular CIA briefing on Tuesday. He met his likely White House national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, on Wednesday for a discussion of foreign policy matters. In an interview with the CBS program ``60 Minutes II'' on Tuesday, Bush said he could understand Gore's ``anguish.'' ``I feel like I have won the election. I feel like I've actually won it two or three times but my opponent has made a decision to continue contesting and I understand that.'' Legal Saga Continues In Tallahassee, the legal saga continued as Judge Nikki Clark, a Democrat, presided over the trial of the Seminole County lawsuit, filed by a Democratic voter. The suit alleged Republican tampering with absentee ballot applications and sought to have all 15,000 absentee votes in the county thrown out -- a move that would net Gore a pickup of some 4,800 votes. The plaintiff's attorney, Gerald Richman, argued there was not simple carelessness but ``intentional misconduct'' on the part of Seminole County elections officials that resulted in ''absolutely, totally disparate treatment'' of Democratic and Republican absentee voters. Seminole County attorney Terry Young questioned the motives of the voter who brought the case, Harry Jacobs, a Democratic supporter and Gore contributor. The lawsuit alleged the county's Republican supervisor of elections, Sandra Goard, let Republicans operate out of her office to modify more than 2,000 applications for absentee ballots to add missing voter identification numbers. In doing so, the lawsuit said, the Republicans ''fraudulently caused the issuance of several thousand invalid absentee ballots'' that were later cast in Seminole County, which is in central Florida on the Atlantic coast. In the Martin County case, Judge Terry Lewis heard preliminary motions on Wednesday morning, including a motion to dismiss the case filed by the Republican attorneys. That hearing adjourned after about 90 minutes so the attorneys could hurry into the adjacent courtroom to begin the trial in the Seminole County case. The Martin County case was set to resume after the Seminole County case was complete. The Martin County lawsuit alleged that 669 of about 9,800 absentee ballot applications were altered by Republican officials. A statistician was set to testify that nine in 10 of those votes would have been cast for Bush, netting Gore 550 additional votes if the contested ballots were tossed out. dailynews.yahoo.com