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Old July 24th 03, 05:42 PM
Paul Tomblin
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In a previous article, "Montblack" said:
"Jay Honeck"
The only people who couldn't vote in Florida (in the 2000 presidential
election) were too stupid to figure out the ballot.


Oh, BTW, how many absentee military votes were the Democrats willing to
throw away, in their pursuit of victory in Florida?


Ok, why is it perfectly ok to throw away the ballots of seniors who "were
too stupid to figure out the ballot", but when they throw away the ballots
of soliders who are too stupid to figure out the procedures[1], that's an
evil Democrat trick?

[1] 680 absentee ballots that were *counted* were found to have voilated
state or federal election law:
344: late, illegible or missing postmarks
183: posted with US (not APO) postmarks
169: voters weren't registerd to vote, failed to sign the envelope, or
had not requested thea ballot.
96: lacked the required signature or address of a witness
38: 19 voters who cast two ballots each
5: received after the 11/17 deadline

Except for the illegible postmarks, all of these people are too stupid to
vote, but they did. And in most cases, their votes were counted because
"canvassing boards in about a dozen Republican-leaning counties had
reconvened for a second round of counting. In each place, longstanding
election rules were bent and even ignored....Again and again, election
officials crossed out the words `REJECTED AS ILLEGAL' that had been
stamped on ballot envelopes."

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~k...h/ballots.html

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