Most absentee ballots coming from overseas to Florida are from US Military or retired US military or US Embassy employees. These people use the APO/FPO mail which is US Post mail traveling through the US Military mail channels. While working for a US defense contractor, we had US APO mail privilages in Saudi Arabia. It is consider the same as mailing a letter here at the local post office in your own town. If it is possible to get a "fake" post mark out of your local town, then it is possible to get a fake postmark from the APO/FPO. Mark Wonsil wrote: > Dennis Heidner wrote: > >In my opinion, I would like to see recounts in all of the very close > >states, and if the differences are less then 1000 votes do a recount by > >hand if necessary. Wait for all absentee ballots to be counted. Then > >certify the election. > > I don't know how accurate a hand count is over a machine count but I > certainly agree that we should wait for the absentee ballots. However, > there should be a change that the rules for absentee ballots in the next > election. It would not be difficult to get a "fake" postmark from some > foreign countries that had a stake in an election. I would suggest that the > ballots be postmarked seven days before the election and only accept them > until the day after. > -- Jim Alexander Longs Drug Stores Sr. Systems Programmer 925-210-6901 The opinions expressed are Mine and not Longs Drugs