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> "Mark Cook" <mcook@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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> > You really need to read the court cases that came out of Florida.
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> > the Democrats illegally throwing out overseas ballots,
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> Ah - there we have it.  You're nothing but a liar, repeating other lies.

From the Washington Post:

"Count every vote" was the Gore mantra, and it had been a powerful weapon in
the war for public opinion between the two campaigns. But Gore needed to
minimize the votes of thousands of predominantly Republican servicemen
serving overseas, and Mark Herron, a Democratic lawyer, had laid out in
detail the best way to disqualify any ballot that did not comply with the
law. If no postmark, the memo said, then protest."

AND

"Bush's lawyers, meanwhile, compiled a list of names of sailors and airmen
whose ballot envelopes had never been opened. They began e-mailing the list,
looking for anyone willing to go on camera. "We found the wife of one guy
and said, 'Did you know that your husband's ballot is being protested?'�"
Marty Fiorentino, a Bush lawyer, recalled. "Then we put her on 'Good Morning
America.'�"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A4787-2001Jan30?language=printer

The Democrats in Florida were relying on the outdated, or superseded,
Florida Statute 101.62(7)(c). The Statute was superseded by a consent decree
between the Federal Government and the State of Florida in 1984. This
agreement was to settle the law suit filed by the Feds to bring Florida
Election Code in line with Overseas Citizens Voting Rights Act and the
Federal Voting Assistance Act. You can find the controlling law in Florida
Administrative Code 1S-2.013 (7).

From: (Robert) Harris vs. State of Florida Election Canvassing Commission,

"This appeal is about counting overseas absentee ballots in a presidential
election and an attack on paragraph 7 of Rule 1S-2.013 of the Florida
Administrative Code. Plaintiff Appellants want us to nullify paragraph 7.
The pertinent part of the Rule reads this way:"

"With respect to the presidential preference primary and the general
election, any absentee ballot cast for a federal office by an overseas
elector which is postmarked or signed and dated no later than the date of
the Federal election shall be counted if received no later than 10 days for
the date of the Federal election as long as such absentee ballot is
otherwise proper."

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/00-16423.pdf

Notice the FAC say ballots are to be "postmarked OR signed and dated", not
"postmarked AND signed and dated". No where in the code does it say that
"ballots MUST be postmarked". The Democrats were challenging and having
ballots thrown out *SOLELY* because they did not have a postmark.

The Democrats made the argument that since Fla. Stat. 101.67 and the Florida
Administrative Code 1S-2.013 differed, that the F.S. 101.67 should win out.
The courts disagreed because the Florida Administrative Code was put into
place to bring Florida Code up to date with the Overseas Citizens Voting
Right Act. In other words, the Fla. Stat. 101.67 was no longer controlling
in this situation because it violated Federal Code.

For a history of how Florida Administrative Code 1S-2.013 came about, and
why it is controlling read the case of Medina vs. Florida ECC.
Link to it at: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/medinaorder.pdf

From Bush vs. Hillsborough County Canvassing Board (this board was
controlled by Democrats)

".....According, the Court HEREBY ORDERS that any state stature, regulation,
administrative rule, or procedure that rejects a federal write-in ballot,
which has been signed pursuant to the oath provided therein,

(A) solely because the ballot envelope does not have an APO, FPO, or foreign
postmark; or

(B) solely because the state has no record of a ballot request is a
violation of Federal Law; conflict with federal law.

It is further ORDERED that all federal write-in ballots rejected for the
above stated reasons are declared valid."

http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election/hills.pdf

As I said, the Democrat were illegally throwing out legal overseas ballots.

This is like shooting guppies in the barrel.