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

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (161083)	7/15/2001 7:27:01 PM
From: ThirdEye	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

TLC--->From another portion of the article on military ballots: "In a single phrase of federal law, they found the statutory tool by which the Bush team would seek to undo Florida's postmarking rules. The phrase was contained in the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act, a 1986 federal law intended to make overseas voting easier. One part of the law, a directive to postal officials, states that overseas ballots ``shall be carried expeditiously and free of postage.'' Although the law said nothing about postmarks, in the view of Mr. Aufhauser, the Bush lawyer, those eight words demonstrated that Congress never intended to require postmarks on overseas military ballots. The lawyers realized they were putting their faith in an untested legal theory. The same federal law emphasizes the importance of state election rules."

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (161083)	7/15/2001 7:58:50 PM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

It seems that many of the blind followers of the GOP love to trumpet how the Gay Old Pachyderm stands in favor of State and Local law over Federal law. "Might it be possible that federal law might override Florida law?" Tastes just Like Chicken. Smells like a hypocrite.

To: Don Pueblo who wrote (161083)	7/16/2001 2:17:01 AM
From: asenna1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

"This page argued for allowing as many votes to be counted as possible under the imperfect circumstances prevailing at Florida polling places, and we also called for a liberal standard in counting overseas absentee ballots from members of the armed services. But the study found that Republican counties were far more likely to count the flawed overseas ballots than were Democratic counties — a difference attributable in part to the relentless, aggressive efforts of Mr. Bush's Florida advisers. When it became clear that the overseas ballots could be decisive, teams of Bush lawyers fanned out to all 67 canvassing boards, armed with one strategy to get as many ballots counted as possible in Republican counties, and another set of tactics aimed at challenging likely Gore votes in Democratic counties." nytimes.com So much for Federal law overriding Florida law.