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On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 21:45:33 GMT, Brian Stretch
<bstretch@mindspring.com> wrote:

>Read the full article here:
>http://www.opinionjournal.com/columnists/pnoonan/?id=65000671
>
>Also see:
>http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=65000648
>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55133-2000Nov23.html
>
>"There is no evidence that the absentee ballots of felons have been
>challenged. 
>
>But the absentee ballots of members of the military were challenged.
>Many were thrown out. 
>
>In the most shameful and painful act of the hand counts, the Democrats
>on the ground, and their operators from the Democratic National
>Committee and the state organization and the Gore campaign,
>deliberately and systematically scrutinized for challenge every military
>absentee ballot, and knocked out as many as they could on whatever
>technicality they could find or even invent. 
>
>Reports begin to filter out. The Democratic army of lawyers and
>operatives marches into the counting room armed with a five-page memo
>from a Democratic lawyer, instructing them on how to disfranchise
>military voters. The lawyers and operatives unspool reams of computer
>printouts bearing the names and party affiliation of military voters.
>Those who are Republicans are subject to particular and seemingly
>relentless scrutiny. Right down to signatures on ballots being compared
>with signatures on registration cards. A ballot bearing a domestic
>postmark because a soldier had voted, sent his ballot home to his
>parents and asked them to mail it in on time, is thrown out. A ballot
>that comes with a note from an officer explaining his ship was not able
>to postmark his ballot, but that he had voted on time--and indeed it had
>arrived in time--is thrown out, because it has no postmark."
>-- 
>Brian Stretch  http://www.mindspring.com/~bstretch  Cert. Technojunkie
>"Wherever there is a jackboot stomping on a human face there will be a
>well-heeled Western liberal to explain that the face does, after all,
>enjoy free health care and 100 percent literacy."--John Derbyshire, NR

Every piece of mail from ships goes through FPO's which are more than
capable of applying a postmark.  If you want to blame someone for
military votes blame the FPO's who did not apply postmarks.  Also
eventhough I could mail my vote postage free I always put a stamp on
it they will postmark that.  Also several of the ballots were not
signed and/or witnessed both are throw out qualifications.