🚀 go-pugleaf

On 20 Nov 2000 18:44:14 GMT, Merlin Dorfman <dorfman@rahul.net> wrote:

>Professor Vonroach (vonroach@popd.ix.netcom.com) wrote:
>
>: Why does he not stand tall beside Swartzkopf and protest loudly and
>: publicly about the nation disgrace of allowing the votes of Americans
>: in the service of their country overseas being rejected by some petty
>: political hacks in south Florida?
>
>     To quote sombody or other: the rules for military ballots were
>published and approved.  The time to object to them as difficult or
>unworkable was then, not after the election.
>     And BTW all military units have "election officers" whose job 
>is to instruct and counsel service people on how to mark and send
>the ballots, including how to meet the requirement that, having 
>not been met, is causing most of the disqualifications: the need
>to get a dated postmark.
>     Very few Palm Beach County retirement homes have "election
>officers" to instruct the residents about butterfly ballots.

What I just heard on TV is the Florida Attorney General will be
allowing those ballots, provided that they are dated and signed and
witnessed. There does not have to be a postmark, due to the fact that
there are places where our military is deployed that do not postmark
the mail.

BTW, why is it ONLY the dumbasses, errrr... democrats had problems
with the "butterfly" ballot. The Republicans figured it out, 1st
graders figured it out, anyone with an IQ above dirt figured it out.
What happened? The shuttle buses used to transport the seniors to the
voting booths kept telling the seniors to vote #2, so they did. The
shuttle bus drivers should have studied the ballot closer.

Mike Smith