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"New Suit Expands Pre-election Battles"
The St. Petersburg Times ^ | October 8, 2004 | Luci Morgan and Joni James

Posted on 10/08/2004 10:36:20 AM PDT by Salty Cobra

New suit expands pre-election battles The lawsuit is at least the fourth pending against Secretary of State Glenda Hood before the Nov. 2 elecions

TALLAHASSEE - As Florida inches closer to the presidential election, lawsuits are piling up against Secretary of State Glenda Hood.

On Thursday, the Florida Democratic Party filed the latest in a series of lawsuits that will be heard in state and federal courtrooms over the next few days.

The increasing number of suits is reminiscent of the 2000 election, when dozens of lawsuits were filed over a recount that saw President Bush win by 537 votes.

Except this time the lawsuits are coming well before the Nov. 2 election.

The courtroom battles include:

A federal lawsuit filed in Tallahassee by Democrats challenging the way Hood's office has handled voter registration forms.

Hood has recommended county election officials reject forms on which voters did not check a box identifying themselves as U.S. citizens. State election officials say the forms are incomplete and cannot be accepted.

Democrats say the forms include an oath voters sign that they are citizens. A voter who signs an untrue statment risks prosecution for perjury.

U.S. District Judge Stephan Mickle has given lawyers for Hood until Tuesday to respond.

A Democratic Party challenge in federal court of the rules Hood established for provisional ballots, which are used when elections officials cannot find a voter's name on voting rolls. She says they cannot be counted unless voters file the ballot in their home precincts. Democrats say the rule violates the U.S. Constitution and federal voting laws.

The suit, filed in federal court a week ago, alleges that Florida's rule could block legally registered voters from having their votes count. U.S. District Judge Robert L. Hinkle of Tallahassee will hear from lawyers for both sides today.

A lawsuit in state court over provisional ballots, filed by labor unions, is scheduled for a hearing before the Florida Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The unions contend Hood's provisional ballot rules violate the Florida Constitution and state laws which require only that voters cast ballots in their home counties. Hood's office says Florida law requires the ballots be cast in home precincts.

A lawsuit filed by the Democratic Party in state court is scheduled for a hearing early today before Tallahassee Circuit Judge Janet Ferris. It challenges a ruling by Hood that has blocked Democrats from replacing Jim Stork, who dropped out of the race against U.S. Rep. Clay Shaw of Fort Lauderdale.

Hood said Democrats could not replace Stork with another candidate because Stork waited until after a Sept. 21 deadline to try and withdraw.

Meanwhile, problems continue to surface as elections officials check voter registration forms turned in by Monday's deadline.

Duval County officials asked state prosecutors Thursday to investigate possible voter fraud involving 25 registration forms that appear to have bogus addresses, including some that match a public park, a parking lot and a Jacksonville utilities building.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: ballot; democrats; electionfraud; electionlawsuits; electronicvoting; newvoters; provisionalballots; registrationforms; touchscreenvoting; votefraud
This is just one instance of many that the Democrats are actively working to upset the Florida Nov 2 elections. As a Florida resident I am thoroughly disgusted! ALL CITIZENS TAKE HEED OUR DEMOCRATIC PROCESS IS BEING SEVERLY THREATENED BY THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY NOT JUST IN FLORIDA BUT ALL OVER THE COUNTRY !!!!!
1 posted on 10/08/2004 10:36:21 AM PDT by Salty Cobra
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To: Salty Cobra

The Democrat Party is a criminal enterprise.


2 posted on 10/08/2004 10:39:31 AM PDT by talleyman (Kriminals for Kerry - Why use a gun to steal when you can use a Democrat?)
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To: Salty Cobra

So it's ok for the Dems to drop any ballot that is missing any item (see: 2000 Elections military absentee ballots), yet when the tables are turned, they squeal like injured rabbits?


3 posted on 10/08/2004 10:39:58 AM PDT by Little Pig
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To: talleyman

Bust them under the RICO statute!


4 posted on 10/08/2004 10:41:16 AM PDT by Prost1 (What's the difference between a congential Liar and a democrat?)
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To: Little Pig

double standard... and it will remain that way if we remain idle. but, if Kerry is elected, will we even have a voice? (Fairness Doctrine will return)?


5 posted on 10/08/2004 10:43:26 AM PDT by fhlh (polls are for topless dancers)
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To: Salty Cobra

Why isn't anyone fussing about the duel books in the diebold voying system?

Here in Georgia that system is everywhere.

I seem to get the impression from some officials that voter fraud is ok ... if it's to their advantage.


6 posted on 10/08/2004 10:50:02 AM PDT by THEUPMAN (#### comment deleted by moderator)
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To: Salty Cobra
Pardon my shouting:

WHERE IS THE REPUBLICAN PARTY? THERE IS A SYSTEMATIC EFFORT WELL UNDERWAY TO DESTROY PUBLIC CONFIDENCE IN ELECTION RESULTS AND THESE GUYS ARE PUDDLING THE FLOOR AND HIDING UNDER THEIR DESKS AS USUAL.

7 posted on 10/08/2004 11:13:42 AM PDT by Dahoser (!Hillary)
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To: Dahoser

IAGREE !!!! THE REPUBLICANS HAVE BECOME A BUNCH OF WIMPS. I SENT SEVERAL "E" MAILS TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE RNC TELLING HIM THIS BUT HAVE RECEIVED NO COMMENTS BACK.


8 posted on 10/08/2004 12:34:12 PM PDT by Salty Cobra
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To: Salty Cobra

How Democrats Steal Elections - Top 10 Methods of Liberal Vote Fraud

1. Over-Voting. In Democrat strongholds like St. Louis, Philadelphia and Detroit, some precincts had 100% of their registered voters voting, with 99% of the ballots going to Gore. Clearly, multiple voting resulted in extra tallies for Gore in the 2000 election. (New York Post, 12/09/00).

2. Dead Voters. This classic Democratic method of vote fraud goes all the way back to 1960 in Chicago and Dallas. The 2000 election was no exception. In Miami-Dade County, for example, some of the 144 ineligible votes (those which officials actually admitted to) were cast by dead people, including a Haitian-American who's been deceased since 1977 (Miami-Herald, 12/24/00).

3. Mystery Voters. These "voters" cast votes anyway but are not even registered to vote. In heavily Democratic Broward County, for example, more than 400 ballots were cast by non-registered voters. (Miami-Herald 1/09/01)

4. Military ballots. Many of these votes were disqualified for the most mundane and trivial reasons. At least 1,527 valid military ballots were discarded in Florida by Democratic vote counters (Drudge Report, 11/19/00).

5. Criminals. Felons are a natural Democratic voter and they're protected on voter rolls across the country. In Florida at least 445 ex-convicts - including rapists and murderers -- voted illegally on November 7th. Nearly all of them were registered Democrats. (Miami-Herald 12/01/00)

6. Illegal aliens. These voters have long been a core liberal constituency, especially in California. In Orange County in 1996, Rep. Bob Dornan had his congressional seat stolen from him when thousands of illegal aliens voted for Loretta Sanchez (Christian Science Monitor, 9/2/97).

7. Vote-buying. Purchasing votes has long been a traditional scheme by Democrats, and not just with money. In the 2000 election in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Democratic workers initiate a "smokes-for-votes" campaign in which they paid dozens of homeless men with cigarettes if they cast ballots for Al Gore (Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 11/14/00).

8. Phantom Voters. These voters don't really exist, but their ballots do. In the 1996 Lousiana Senate race, GOP candidate Woody Jenkins had the election stolen from him when he discovered that 7,454 actual votes were cast but had no paper trail to authenticate them (Behind the Headlines, F.R. Duplantier, 4/27/97).

9. Dimpled chads. Those infamous punch-cards were a ballot bonanza for Al Gore. Democratic poll workers in Palm Beach, Dade and Broward counties tampered and manipulated thousands of ineligible ballots and counted them for Gore, even though no clear vote could be discerned. (NewsMax.com 11/27, 12/22, 11/18, 11/19/00).

10. Absentee ballots. Normally it's assumed that Republicans benefit from absentee ballots. But in the case of Miami's 1997 mayoral election, hundreds of absentee ballots were made for sale or sent out to non-Miami residents. Fraud was so extensive in the race that the final results were overturned in court (FL Dept. of Law Enforcement Report, 1/5/98)."

SOURCE: http://www.conservativeaction.org/resources.php3?nameid=votefraud

Links on freerepublic:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=electionfraud
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=votefraud

WE MUST FIGHT VOTE FRAUD!


9 posted on 10/14/2004 12:09:19 PM PDT by hripka (There are a lot of smart people out there in FReeperLand)
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