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To: lawdog who wrote (103700)	12/6/2000 6:26:20 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769667

I don't believe there is evidence of that. Even if true, that could not alter Bush's victory in FL.

To: lawdog who wrote (103700)	12/6/2000 6:33:37 PM
From: BishopsChild	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Then why did the Seminole County director of election deny hundreds of Democrats their right to an absentee ballot. who told you that......?????

To: lawdog who wrote (103700)	12/6/2000 6:41:03 PM
From: Carolyn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

They didn't.

To: lawdog who wrote (103700)	12/6/2000 6:53:33 PM
From: maverick61	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Lawlessmutt - read the FACTS again - you said: "Then why did the Seminole County director of election deny hundreds of Democrats their right to an absentee ballot. There could be a whole new case in there. Thanks Zoltan, you always come through in a pinch." EVEN YOU are buying GORE THE LOSER LIE'S - Even the NY Daily News said so below Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2000 9:51 a.m. EST Gore Caught Telling Seminole Case Whopper If you were as confused as we were Tuesday when Vice President Al Gore charged that Democrat absentee ballot applications were "thrown out" by Republican election officials in Seminole County, Fla., don't worry. You didn't miss what would undoubtedly be a bombshell development, one as yet unreported anywhere else. It turns out that no absentee ballot applications - Democrat or Republican - were thrown out in Seminole. Gore simply made the allegation up out of whole cloth. "More than enough votes were potentially taken away from Democrats because they were not given the same access as Republicans," Gore told reporters outside the White House. "Remember, according to what's come out in that case ... Democrats were denied an opportunity to come in, denied a chance to even look at the applications, and those applications were thrown out." "Now, that doesn't seem fair to me," Gore complained. Only the New York Daily News noted Gore's whopper, first citing the above quote, then explaining to its readers: "The vice president misstated the central issue in the case. ... The suit does not make that allegation (that Democrat applications were thrown out). The Democratic Party did not need to alter ballot applications because the forms it had mailed to voters included all the needed information." The New York Times and the New York Post simply reported Gore's comment without noting its inaccuracy. Last Thursday the Wall Street Journal explained why Republicans alone were given access to absentee ballot applications in Seminole County, revealing a key detail omitted from almost all coverage of the case before or since: "The controversy centers on Florida's requirement that applications for absentee ballots contain voter identification numbers. Both parties sent out many applications with these numbers already filled in by computer. But software error caused the omission of numbers from some sent out by the Republicans. ... There was no similar problem on applications mailed out by the Democrats."

To: lawdog who wrote (103700)	12/6/2000 7:53:18 PM
From: Master (Hijacked)	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

GORE LIED GORE LIED GORE LIED The more Gore talks the more he crucifies himself. bau2.uibk.ac.at "More than enough votes were potentially taken away from Democrats because they were not given the same access as Republicans," Gore told reporters outside the White House. "Remember, according to what's come out in that case ... Democrats were denied an opportunity to come in, denied a chance to even look at the applications, and those applications were thrown out." "Now, that doesn't seem fair to me," Gore complained. Only the New York Daily News noted Gore's whopper, first citing the above quote, then explaining to its readers: "The vice president misstated the central issue in the case. ... The suit does not make that allegation (that Democrat applications were thrown out). The Democratic Party did not need to alter ballot applications because the forms it had mailed to voters included all the needed information."