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To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (86773)	12/13/2000 12:56:57 PM
From: Don Lloyd	Respond to of 132070

Wayne - ...>>Republican faking of registration cards.<< That's a new one. What happened? This is the probably the two court suits in Seminole and Martin counties brought by the Democratic trial lawyers to throw out 25K or so absentee ballots. Both the Republicans and the Democrats sent out pre-filled absentee ballot request forms. Some, but not all, of the Republican request forms had a printing error which failed to include a public record voter ID number or a line on which to enter one. When the Republican forms were returned to the county election office by the voters, there were more than 2000 incomplete forms, lacking the ID number. These could not be processed without the number, and were placed in a box along with all the others, including other individual non-mass mailed pre-filled forms, that were defective or incomplete. Contrary to the Democrats' claim that these were rejected, in fact they were simply in suspension, as it was the policy of the office to call the voters for remedy as time allowed. With the large number of defective request forms, now known to have resulted from the printing error, the Republicans were allowed to correct the forms. The forms were taken from the office in Martin County to be corrected, and corrected in the office in Seminole County. It was the Democrats' claim that the allowance for the Republicans to correct the forms represented an unfair advantage since no Democrats were given a similar allowance. The Democrats somehow failed to note that their pre-filled forms did not have a similar printing error and so they did not make any request for a similar allowance. They also failed to note that the pre-filled Democratic request forms were not returned directly to the county election offices, as was the state preference, but were rather returned to Democratic campaign headquarters. Thus even if the forms suffered from some errors of commission or omission, the Democrats would have corrected them before filing without leaving any evidence of having done so. A Democratic witness in the Seminole County case was a previous local candidate who had not been allowed to take flawed petition forms from the office. This was supposed to suggest bias on the part of the Republican office manager. It apparently turned out that when the refusal was previously made the candidate was actually running as a Republican, not as the Democrat that he currently is. These cases demonstrate what complete slimeballs Democratic partisan trial lawyers can be, trying to just have all the perfectly legal absentee ballots discarded because a much smaller amount of request forms were handled in a way that was technically irregular or even technically illegal. In both counties, Democratic judges rejected the Democratic claims for ballot discard, and the rejections were affirmed yesterday by the Democratic Florida Supreme Court. Regards, Don

To: Freedom Fighter who wrote (86773)	12/13/2000 1:25:12 PM
From: Knighty Tin	Respond to of 132070

Wayne, 1. Yes, according the inventor of the voting machines, they can be programmed to radically different recognition standards. 2. The traffic checks happened. The question is whether laws should not be enforced during an election, and whether or not these checks were aimed at primarily Democratic voting districts. I would also think some consideration of ticketing by geographical location prior to the election should be considered before condemning it as just more Republican dirty tricks, at which they excel. They tend to leave a lot of outs like that when they go criminal. 3. The registration cards are the whole Seminole County fiasco. As always, most of this stuff would not have been so suspicious outside of the deep south and in a state not run by one candidate's brother. My opinion of Jeb has always been fairly positive, but, then, this is bigger game than he's hunted in the past.