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"Mark Cook" <mcook@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> "Baxter" <lbax01.spamguard@baxcode.com> wrote in message
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> > >As I said, the Democrat were illegally throwing out legal overseas
> ballots.
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> > Lie.  None of the ballots were thrown out.
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> Why would a judge order the inclusion of ballots that had NOT been thrown
> out???

Democrats, huh?  Your source impeaches this claim - it says nothing about
the Democratic Party.   Further:
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While the Bush campaign loudly criticized a Gore supporter's memo that laid
out a strategy to challenge overseas ballots, the Bush team had its own such
strategy, the Times reported.

A Bush campaign memo laid out a two-pronged strategy � telling Bush lawyers
how to challenge "illegal" civilian votes that they assumed would be for
Gore and also how to defend equally defective military ballots, the Times
said.

Ginsberg acknowledged that they had fought for military ballots while
opposing ballots from civilians. Others involved in the campaign denied it.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/july01/2001-07-14-flawed-ballots.htm

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> It is further ORDERED that all federal write-in ballots rejected for the
> above stated reasons are declared valid."
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> http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/hills.pdf
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> I guess the Judge was bored so he made up this case.

You've got a few counties that rejected some ballots based on Florida law.
The judge ruled that Federal Law superceded state law - "Collectively,
Defendants rejected ballots that arrived without a postmark, with an
illegible postmark, or with a postmark dated after election day if there was
no handwritten date on the envelope to suggest that the vote was cast before
November 7, 2003. See FLA. ADMIN. CODE 1S-2.013"  Some ballots had
signatures that did not match the signatures on file with the board.  Do
actually read the ruling.

What you've really got is a case of a Federal court making State Law.

You've also got the case of Bush targeting only those counties where he
thought the absentee ballots would favor him.
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Republican attorney Fred H. Bartlit Jr. said the lawsuit targeted only 13
counties because the GOP "wanted to move fast" and wanted to limit the
complaint to the degree possible to those counties that have the greatest
number of military ballots.
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2000/11/22/170150.shtml


You've also got the problem that while Bush fought to ensure that the
Military votes were accepted no matter how questionable, he also fought to
disenfranchise regular voters.

The Repugs also stood ready to have the Repuglican-controled Florida State
Legislature to appoint electors regardless of the count.


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bottom line is you've got a few legal challenges, and not the wholesale
disenfranchisement that you've been trying to claim.
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Q: What's the status of Florida's overseas military ballots? Were they
included in the certified tally?
A:Upon learning that some overseas ballots were excluded (because of late
postmarks, no postmarks or no witness signature) the Bush legal team filed a
suit in Leon County court (where Tallahassee is located) asking that those
ballots be reintroduced into the hand count. Several days later, the suit
was withdrawn, after Bush lawyers were satisfied that most counties had
included many of the overseas ballots. The GOP legal team maintained,
however, that it was prepared to refile a suit if they learn there are
counties which decide definitively not to reexamine their overseas ballots �
and Friday, December 1, they did just that, bringing suit against seven
counties and charging that all overseas absentee ballots, regardless of
postmark, should be counted. On December 11 a federal appeals court upheld
that lawsuit.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,88674,00.html