OT - update from florida

[Michelle]

No: HPFGUIDX 5475

I hope this gets through, I've tried before.  I've been reading these 
posts for about a month. I don't mean to be a lurker!  I am a Palm 
Beach County, FL voter and those ballots WERE confusing!  I had to 
look at it closely before I punched in my vote for Gore.  I'm not 
surprised so many senior citizens had problems.  Anyway, if this gets 
through I would like to say hello to everyone, hopefully I will get to 
interact with you now.  Obviously, I love the Harry Potter series and 
I hope the Bush administration doesn't try to ban these books in the 
schools.  Thanks for your time.                                       
                                            Michelle                  
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
                                                                      
--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "heidi tandy" 
<heidi.h.tandy.c92 at a...> wrote:
> 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.