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"Mark Cook" <mcook@prodigy.net> wrote in message
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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.
> Between
> > > the Democrats illegally throwing out overseas ballots,
> >
> > Ah - there we have it.  You're nothing but a liar, repeating other lies.
>
> From the Washington Post:
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> "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."

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


Lie.  None of the ballots were thrown out.  They should of been as they were
clearly illegal, but they were counted anyway (except if they were likely to
be Dem votes).
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More than 2,000 absentee ballots cast overseas, most from members of the
armed forces and their families, arrived in Florida last November too late
to be counted with votes cast on Election Day. Scores arrived without
postmarks as required, sparking a bitter dispute between the rival
presidential camps over whether they should be included.

Bowing to demands from George W. Bush's campaign that military ballots
should be counted no matter how they arrived, several Florida county
canvassing boards tallied the overseas ballots regardless of whether they
bore the requisite postmark. Since Bush carried the overseas vote by nearly
2 to 1, the disputed ballots may have added significantly to the razor-thin
margin of 537 votes by which he carried Florida and thus ensured his
election.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A3
5557-2001Jun22&notFound=true

Of 2,490 absentee overseas ballots that counted toward Florida's vote totals
in last November's election, 680 were improper under state law because they
lacked witness signatures or postmarks, were postmarked after the Nov. 7
election, were sent from somewhere in the United States or were from voters
who voted twice, the New York Times reported yesterday.

In an exhaustive six-month review, the newspaper found that Republican
operatives outhustled their Democratic opponents during a lengthy
post-Election Day struggle over the overseas votes, and had many ballots
from overseas military personnel counted that should not have counted under
Florida law.

"The effectiveness of the Republican effort is demonstrated by striking
disparities in how different counties treated ballots with similar defects,"
the Times reported. In the 16 counties won by former vice president Al Gore,
only 2 out of every 10 ballots that had late, illegible or missing postmarks
were counted as valid votes, while in the 51 counties won by George W. Bush,
6 in 10 of those questionable votes counted.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=&contentId=A1
225-2001Jul15&notFound=true

>This is like shooting guppies in the barrel.

Actually it's credibility you've shot in the head.