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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