OT - update from florida A WHOLE BOX?

[heidi tandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 5423

Honestly, I don't know how normal or abnormal this is. We had an 
election for mayor a few years back which was overturned because of 
major league ballot fraud but I have no idea if any of this is 
anything similar - it could be just a little accident or something. 
And the Palm Beach County ballots were a little confusing but the 
estimate is that no more than 400 people could have misvoted, because 
that's the whole tally for Buchanan in that county anyway. 
All we can do is sit and wait for a few more days & see what actually 
happens. 
But it is a very strange feeling like being trapped in some weird 
limbo.
I really need a Pensieve after last night...and this morning...and 
this afternoon

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Denise Rogers" <gypsycaine at y...> 
wrote:
> Ok.  I am calm.  There are strange things happening in Florida that 
I do not
> understand.  Heidi, is this normal?  Calling in 27 prec.'s workers 
to
> recount absentee ballots that SHOULD have been counted by the 
normal time?
> Missing ballot boxes in that one county?  The one that your county 
found?
> This isn't even including the mess with Buchanan/Gore votes in Palm
> (something) County with the senior citizens who thought they had 
voted their
> minds, and were wrong.
> 
> This election has soo many headaches, and Florida being such a 
"BIG" thing
> in the eyes of the country make these errors, etc. inflated 
perhaps.... but
> they do worry me.  Especially with Jeb (I know, he might be a fair 
man, or
> he might be a crook--I don't know him at all) and his family 
connections.
> 
> :~
> Dee
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "heidi tandy" <heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...>
> To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 11:06 AM
> Subject: [HPforGrownups] OT - update from florida
> 
> 
> > Just letting all of you know where the election results stand (or,
> > rather, wobble).
> >
> > The recount of votes may not be completed until the end of 
business
> > on Thursday - also, ballots cast by Florida registered voters 
living
> > overseas who were required to have their ballots postmarked by
> > Tuesday might take up to *ten days* to arrive and to be added to 
the
> > vote count, officials have said. Bush led by fewer than 1,800 
votes
> > in the election night count. No idea how many of such ballots are
> > expected, but in 1996, 2,300 were received, which is more than 
Bush's
> > current margin of victory.
> > ALSO, they said on teh radio this morning that a WHOLE BOX of 
ballots
> > was "accidentally" left behind in a polling station in Northwest
> > Miami Dade County - just so you know, the split in Miami Dade (my
> > county) was 53% gore, 46% Bush, so depending on how many ballots 
were
> > in there...well, you can guess!
> >
> > Trying to find a way to keep this ontopic - In the wizarding 
world,
> > there would be no "absentee ballots" because the voting would all 
be
> > done by owl, much in the same way that oregon has voting by mail.
> > Discuss.
> >
> >
> >
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