🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:23:00 -0500, pioneer_technology@attglobal.net
wrote:

>3000 Marines/Navy in from Ships in the Persian Gulf, and many more
>Military from ships/Air Wings based overseas (TDA), about 1500 from
>Israel. Your 4,000 number must be from a re-re-re-recount
>
The numbers will be up in the air until Saturday, but it STILL doesn't
look good for Bush...recount or no recount. The following is an
article from newsmax.com - one of THE most right-wing sites on the
web:

http://www.newsmax.com/showinsidecover.shtml?a=2000/11/14/202449

Gore Has Advantage in Absentee Ballots: Tallahassee Report

Republicans hoping that George W. Bush will get a big boost when
Florida's absentee vote is tallied on Friday, Nov. 17, may be in for a
big disappointment. 

While military absentee voters are expected to break heavily for Bush,
most of their ballots arrived stateside by Election Day via the
military's "fast mail" system.

Those votes have already been counted, according to election
supervisors interviewed by the Tallahassee Democrat. If true, that
would severely diminish what was expected to be a big Bush vote
windfall.

"Right now we have only 40 or 50 waiting," Linda McEwen, election
services manager for Okaloosa County, told the Democrat. Okaloosa is
home to Elgin Air Force Base.

"In Santa Rosa County, with the Pensacola Naval Air Station, 504 of
the 687 absentee ballots mailed overseas made it back in time for the
first count," county Elections Supervisor Doug Wilkes told the
Democrat.

"In Escambia County, where 1,802 ballots were requested, 626 were
returned by Nov. 7; by noon Monday, only 136 more had come in,
awaiting Friday's count."

In fact, Democrat strategists believe that late absentee arrivals will
be overwhelmingly civilian and substanitally Jewish, a demographic
group that heavily favors Gore. 

"Edward G. Rendell, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and
many other Democrats have said that the party is counting on a
preponderance of Floridians living in Israel to put Gore over the
top," reports the Tallahassee paper.

"David Froelich, U.S. voting coordinator in Israel, estimates that
4,000 Floridians live in Israel. Of those, he said, about 2,500 will
vote by absentee ballot - more than enough to tilt the state for
Gore."

"This presidency will be decided by the Florida Crackers and the
Israeli Jews," according to Lance DeHaven-Smith, director of the
Florida Institute of Government and a scholar on state voting trends.

The votes of the "Crackers" (rural white Floridians likely to vote
Republican) are already in, DeHaven-Smith told the paper. "The issue
now is whether Floridians in Israel will have the last say."