Once again,

This is Democrat controlled Broward County.
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From: "Michael Baier" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] OT: Republican Group Accused of Voter Fraud


> democratic election !!!! This is a joke and an embarrassment for this
> otherwise great country.
> much much to learn in good old Europe
> At the moment democracy is there and not here.
>
>
> Postal Experts Hunt for Missing Ballots in Florida
>
> MIAMI (Reuters) - U.S. Postal Service investigators on Wednesday were
> trying to find thousands of absentee ballots that should have been
> delivered to voters in one of Florida's most populous counties, officials
> said.
>
> The issue evoked memories of the polling problems that bedeviled the
> Florida election in 2000 and which the state has been trying to address
> before next Tuesday's presidential election, which is again expected to be
> a very tight race.
>
> Broward deputy supervisor of elections Gisela Salas said 60,000 absentee
> ballots, accounting for just over 5 percent of the electorate in the
> county
> north of Miami, were sent out between Oct. 7 and Oct. 8 to voters who
> would
> not be in town on election day.
>
> While some had begun to be delivered, her office had been inundated with
> calls from anxious voters who still had not received their ballots.
>
> "It's really inexplicable at this point in time and the matter is under
> investigation by law enforcement," Salas told Reuters.
>
> "It was basically our first major drop of the absentee ballots," Salas
> said. She said postal service officials had assured Broward elections
> supervisor Brenda Snipes that the ballots had moved out of the post office
> to which they had been taken by the elections office.
>
> U.S. Postal Service Inspector Del Alvarez, whose federal agency is
> independent from the U.S. Postal Service, said it had yet to be determined
> if the ballots reached the post office.
>
> "It's highly unlikely that 58,000 pieces of mail just disappeared," he
> said. "We're looking for it, we're trying to find it if in fact it was
> ever
> delivered to the postal service."
>
> In 2000 the race in Florida, on which the national presidential contest
> ultimately depended, was so close it prompted five weeks of lawsuits and
> recounts.
>
> The U.S. Supreme Court eventually halted the recounts, handing President
> Bush a 537-vote victory in Florida and the White House, and infuriating
> Democrats who insist their candidate Al Gore won the popular vote in the
> state.
>
> The punch card ballots that were at the heart of the disputed 2000
> election
> have been replaced by touchscreen voting machines in 15 of Florida's 67
> counties, and just over half the state electorate will use them. The other
> counties will use optical scanning machines to read paper ballots.
>
> But poll watchers still fear another legal maelstrom if the race in
> Florida, or any other critical swing state, is close and there are
> suspicions that some voters were denied a ballot.
>
> Salas said the missing absentee ballot forms did not yet represent a major
> election problem because people had the option of voting early before next
> Tuesday, when Bush is being challenged by Democratic Sen. John Kerry.
>
> Poll workers will be able to cross-check through lap top computers hooked
> up to a central database whether voters had already sent in absentee
> ballots. On election day itself, those who requested absentee ballots will
> only be able to vote in person if they bring the blank absentee forms with
> them.
>
> "A lot of people are very concerned because they think that just because
> they requested an absentee ballot, now they're stuck in a limbo situation
> where they don't have their ballot and they can't vote," Salas said.
>
> "So most definitely we want to get the message out that yes they can go to
> an early voting site and cast their ballot and that's what we would
> encourage them to do," she said.
>
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