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GOP Mulls Suit on Overseas Ballots
By DAN SEWELL (Direct
descendent of Joseph Stalin)
Associated Press Writer NOVEMBER 19, 01:11 EST
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) � A Republican governor said Saturday George W. Bush's margin among voters who sent ballots from overseas should have been larger than reported, saying the GOP is considering a lawsuit because large numbers of absentee ballots were thrown out.
(The "Free Press" will
scream rape if the Republicans file suit, but when the DemocRATS do it, it's the
system at work for the people! - tha malcontent)
While gaining 1,380 votes to Al Gore's 750 from the overseas absentees, the Bush campaign complained about a large numbers of ballots that were thrown out, often for a lack of an overseas postmark.
Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, appearing at a news conference that Republicans held in Austin, Texas, told reporters that ``the vice president's lawyers have gone to war in my judgment against the men and women who serve in our Armed Forces.''
Racicot said Bush's lawyers could still file a legal challenge to the rejected military ballots. ``We are presently in the process of examining our remedies,'' he said. '' ... We haven't made our final judgment.''
Rep. Tillie Fowler, a Republican who represents part of the Jacksonville area, stood outside the Memorial Wall to Duval County's war dead and read the names of local military people whose ballots were thrown out because of Democratic challenges.
``There was an organized Democratic effort throughout this state in every single county to get military ballots thrown out,'' said Fowler.
(This is what is called FRAUD,
"Free Press"! Just stand there in shear amazement of your party
guys! The sick thing is, if Algore Junior is successful, they will call it
politically genius instead of politically corrupt! - tha malcontent)
Earlier, retired Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf, the Desert Storm commander who lives in Florida, said, ``These armed forces ballots should be allowed to be tallied.'' And Sen. John Warner, R-Va., a veteran and former secretary of the Navy, also criticized the rejection of some 1,500 ballots during county-by-county tallies.
``It is a very sad day in our country when the men and women of the armed forces are serving abroad and facing danger on a daily basis ... yet because of some technicality out of their control, they are denied the right to vote for the president of the United States who will be their commander in chief,'' Schwarzkopf said in a statement released by the Bush campaign.
(Gee, a lack of respect for the
military?... not this administration, I don't believe it! - tha malcontent)
The final absentee totals were handed out without comment, just after 1 p.m., by a state aide. That was in contrast to a ceremony planned Saturday afternoon in the Florida Cabinet meeting room in which Secretary of State Katherine Harris would have officially certified the victor in the battle for Florida's 25 electoral votes. The Florida Supreme Court on Friday blocked Harris from certifying the results and scheduled oral arguments for Monday.
Bush's Florida lead grew to 930 votes with the gain of 630 from the overseas results.
``Bush didn't get what people expected,'' Gore campaign spokesman Doug Hattaway said. ``He got like 600, and we're happy about that.''
("He got like
600..." How old is this gen-x'er? And "we're happy about
that." Have you all heard about the memo sent out to Liberal
districts on how to negate the military ballots? This is treasonous! - tha
malcontent
Hattaway rejected GOP allegations of a Democratic effort to target military ballots that Bush thought would mainly go to him.
``Both sides had observers there and it's a very bipartisan process,'' Hattaway said. He said he knew of no Democratic strategy to challenge the overseas ballots.
Warner, now chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services, wrote Defense Secretary William S. Cohen about military ballots rejected for lacking postmarks.
Warner wrote that the missing postmarks were the ``duty not of the voter but of the military postal clerk,'' adding that ``human error, as well as time and operational constraints, results in some mail not being
postmarked."
(I bet they clearly cast their
votes, unlike some ignorant Floridians! Sheep, it is time to wake up! -
tha malcontent)
County observers argued over how to interpret a pre-election memo by Harris that said overseas ballots ``must be received by the supervisors of elections by midnight Friday. They are not required, however, to be postmarked on or prior to last Tuesday (Nov. 7).''
Scott McMillen, an Orlando attorney representing the Democrats in the Seminole County vote, said some ballots were accepted without any postmark at all.
``I think the state law is pretty clear,'' McMillen said Saturday. ``I didn't see a trend for or against military ballots by the Democrats. What I saw was some people trying to follow the rules exactly and some people saying that the canvassing board could interpret the rules to let in the maximum number of ballots.''
(And again the "Free
Press" gives the DemocRATS the last word... is Katie Couric editing these
articles? - tha malcontent)
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