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

To: Tom Clarke who wrote (296383)	9/13/2002 8:57:56 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Respond to of 769670

(Ace) Ventura’s Influence on the Florida Primary by Alan Turin You can imagine the call Governor Bush took from his brother, "Jeb, it’s key this election down there be smooth. We’re getting all kind of flak for taking on Saddam. We don’t need issues about the election. Anything that makes us look badly in Florida will hurt us nationally. Jeb, I’ll need you again. Jeb? Jeb are you there?" Two years ago the rest of these United States watched Florida struggle with a novel experience: holding an election. Last year Florida’s legislature reformed the physical process of voting so as to avoid any repeat of the problems of 2000. Tuesday’s primary was the first test. Problems threatened when Broward Supervisor of Elections Miriam Oliphant said she wouldn’t have enough poll workers to properly conduct the election. Republicans complained that they had volunteered only to never be called back, Oliphant reversed herself: she had enough workers. Polls were to open at 7 a.m., which did not happen in many precincts in Dade & Broward counties. Some precincts weren’t opened until near lunchtime. In many places the new equipment didn’t work. Former federal Attorney General Janet Reno, a contender for the Democrat gubernatorial nomination, was at her precinct at 7 a.m. Her precinct didn’t open for twenty minutes trying to get the equipment running. Complaints got so vociferous during the day that the Governor ordered polls remain open an extra two hours throughout the state. When several polls closed at 7 p.m. despite the Governor’s order, Broward’s Oliphant claimed that her staff had informed all poll workers of the extended hours. Many poll workers claimed no such notification ever came to them. As the night closes, controversy dogs several counties. Before the rest of the country snickers, let me assure you that this was a service for the rest of you. We here in Florida run elections as is done in Third World countries to achieve several worthwhile goals: First, we want our newest émigrés to feel at home. Second, we want to show the rest of the country the "shape of things to come." Our tourism slogan now takes on a deeper meaning: Florida, the rules are different here. September 13, 2002 Alan Turin [send him mail] voted early, often and volunteered to head up the local "Re-elect Homer Simpson in ’04" campaign. Copyright © 2002 LewRockwell.com lewrockwell.com