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FLORIDAS ALL OVER DEMS EYE ELECTION LAWSUITS
New York Post ^ | October 14, 2004 | COLLIN LEVEY

Posted on 10/14/2004 6:21:25 AM PDT by OESY

...Call it the sour-grapes insurance policy: If John Kerry loses, Democrats can always use their lawyers to say the Republicans stole the election — again.

[T]he Kerry team, has said the campaign intends to be able to "fight five statewide recounts and still have funds available to the campaign." The ...local Lawyers Committee for the Kerry Campaign has raised $2 million to support recount efforts [and] set up its own nationwide legal network, in lieu of the usual local Democratic Lawyers Associations....

The lawsuits may materialize even in the wake of a decisive Bush victory: Democrats have learned that hinting darkly about the "illegitimacy" of a Republican president keeps their partisan fervor on the boil between elections....

In short, the argument is: Any time a Democrat doesn't the win the presidency, it's a miscarriage of democracy. That's a good line to fire up the base, and rationalize defeat to boot.

Of course, rationalizing is what lawyers do best. But you'd think vigilance against voter fraud would be a bipartisan issue. As "Stealing Elections" author John Fund points out, at least eight of the 9/11 hijackers were registered to vote in U.S. elections.

In fact, many of the Democrats' legal efforts and claims of disenfranchisement are meant to thwart attempts to stop ineligible voters. Jesse Jackson and the NAACP routinely complain that, if the felons in Florida weren't "disenfranchised," Al Gore would be president today.

Hey, Gore would be president if Canadians were allowed to vote, too, or if residents of heavily Democratic districts in Florida could vote twice. Too bad those pesky election laws have been used systematically to cheat Democrats of the presidency!

...If every election is now potentially reversible in court, the litigation lobby will finally have achieved its ascendancy over all three branches of government....

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Ohio; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: bush; clinton; connaughton; disenfranchisement; edwards; gore; gorewar; jessejackson; kerry; lawfare; lawyerscommittee; litigation; marcelias; nylawjournal; skaddenarps; triallawyers; wexsler
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1 posted on 10/14/2004 6:21:25 AM PDT by OESY
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To: OESY

The Dems invested a whole lot here in Fla., and it appears they've lost.


2 posted on 10/14/2004 6:22:25 AM PDT by Brilliant
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To: OESY

I'm working at the polls on 11/2 in Cocoa FL and I intend to take my camera to record any hanky-panky. I may forever be barred from working any future polls - but I REFUSE to sit back and let the RATS and their goons try and steal this election again. I encourage every concerned American to volunteer to work at the polls and document any questionable RAT activity.


3 posted on 10/14/2004 6:26:32 AM PDT by Elkiejg (O.K., I'll say it...... Democrats ARE UNPATRIOTIC!!)
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To: Elkiejg
I'd like to see web cams at all polling stations as the 1st step. Add on computer systems that do face recognition and comparisons. This country was built on a system of checks and balances. Voting system checks and balances are left over from the 19th century
4 posted on 10/14/2004 6:45:48 AM PDT by Moss
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To: OESY

Signed up to be poll watchers here in St. Johns County,
St. Augustine. We are highly Bush Country, except for certain areas in downtown St. Augustine where you see alot of Kerry Signs. Counting the bumber stickers.....Bush wins FL!!!
Please keep up the prayers for our President.
And call your RNC to see what you can do to help get our President reelected. They need people to make phone calls to the people that were sent absentee ballotts. We need to get out the vote.


5 posted on 10/14/2004 6:53:02 AM PDT by RitaMcA (FL is Bush Country)
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To: Moss
We don't even need that.
If a State Supreme Court (in PA) can throw out Nader on
the grounds of thousands of 'fraudulent' (I'm in no
position to verify, but it does help Kerry)
applications, surely we can do the same thing to openly
faked Dem voter applications (ACORN, anyone?)

We just have to start refuting LLL
'reporters' who would call exposure of Dem fraud
'disenfranchisement'!

6 posted on 10/14/2004 6:55:50 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: RitaMcA
I worked as a poll watcher in 2002. Prepare to know what the procedures should be and work with others to see that every one who has the right to vote can. Your goal should be to get it right, not gather info for a lawsuit. Eventhough I was assigned to a precinct where the holocaust survivors vote in their own gated community, I got along fine with the poll workers who had been working the job for many years, I only mentioned an observation to the director a couple of times. However, later a 90 yr old died-in-the-wool dem dressed in red white and blue called over to me. Hey, poll watcher, she said, and drew my attention to something that needed correction. We were required to carry a cell phone to call into Republican lawyers, if necessary, but it didn't come to that in my precinct.

However, the election rolls were not up to date. About one third of the voters listed were dead. That is an invitation to abuse. That's when busloads of union members show up late in the day to vote the dead people.

7 posted on 10/14/2004 7:07:07 AM PDT by ClaireSolt
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To: Elkiejg
I'm not sure the Dems hanky panky will be obvious or visible. Things like false registrations, straw voters, voting in multiple districts etc. Many of their ways to cheat wouldn't be caught by poll watchers.

Does Florida require a photo ID to vote? I see nothing wrong with this requirement. You have to have a photo ID just to drive to the polls, why should people be allowed to vote with no ID? That would stop a lot of the hanky panky.

8 posted on 10/14/2004 7:13:23 AM PDT by Sender (It is not their patriotism, but their judgment, that is so sorely lacking. -Zell Miller)
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To: Elkiejg

Rove says there will be poll watchers at every precinct in swing states.


9 posted on 10/14/2004 7:13:34 AM PDT by js1138 (Speedy architect of perfect labyrinths.)
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To: OESY

Thanks, Al Gore, you BETRAYED this country, you PLAYED ON OUR FEARS!!!!! We will never have another national election that the results of which won't have to be settled in the courts after the shameless debacle of 2000.

Power to the lawyers, and the people be damned is the mantra of the new Democratic Party.


10 posted on 10/14/2004 7:16:15 AM PDT by thelastvirgil (Idiot-proof ANYTHING, and someone will build a better idiot.)
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To: JulieRNR21; kinganamort; katherineisgreat; floriduh voter; summer; Goldwater Girl; windchime; ...
Florida Freeper

I'm compiling a list of FReepers in Florida for use in the upcoming elections.
If you want to be added, please FReepMail me.


11 posted on 10/14/2004 7:21:14 AM PDT by Joe Brower (The Constitution defines Conservatism.)
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To: Joe Brower
...If every election is now potentially reversible in court, the litigation lobby will finally have achieved its ascendancy over all three branches of government....

This is good, the backlash from a mass of frivilous lawsuits will probably end the litigation lobby perminently.
12 posted on 10/14/2004 7:29:26 AM PDT by ARCADIA (Abuse of power comes as no surprise)
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To: OESY
How algore almost stole an election .....



Bug-eyed Chad Search


Here is the ATLA’s Logo …

… these are better:


And from my neck of the woods:




13 posted on 10/14/2004 9:42:41 AM PDT by MeekOneGOP (There is only one GOOD 'RAT: one that has been voted OUT of POWER !! Straight ticket GOP!)
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To: OESY

This is classic Soros. Fund multiple organizations. Some lobby for a candidate. Some claim to be "human rights" organizations. Some are street-action brownshirts. Now we're seeing a classic Soros style deligitimization campaign in action, in the USA. This is exactly how governments are overthrown. Loud campaigns and election losses are followed by claims of 'fraud' and 'disenfranchisement'. Then the supposedly neutral (but actually left-aligned) 'Human Rights Organizations' start upping the ante by calling for international oversight, UN investigations, etc. In the final stage the brownshirts are sent out to intimidate the population. The left-owned media describe a 'citizen uprising' over the attempt to steal the election. The actual winner is forced to leave to prevent bloodshed. The Soros surrogate (Kerry in this case) is installed in office.

If you think this can't work as Slobadon Milosovec (if you can get in to see him in prison). Or the former head of Georgia. Bush is to be the final trophy in the collection of Mr. Soros.

They are setting up to run this play here. A great book is "How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election" by Bill Sammon. They were just warming up in 2000.


14 posted on 10/14/2004 9:56:33 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black; Eaker; AK2KX; Ancesthntr; archy; backhoe; Badray; t_skoz; Becki; Joe Brower; ...

CWII Ping. (If the ballot box is voided, the cartridge box is sure to follow. Again, look at Yugoslavia.)


15 posted on 10/14/2004 9:58:59 AM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black

I fear the "Democrats" have become the party of criminal enterprise and Marxist/Communist ambition to grasp power by "any means necessary"...

The stupid bastards don't realize how close they are to being on the receiving end of something a lot more "expressive" than a ballot.....and spelled nearly the same...

Semper Fi


16 posted on 10/14/2004 10:22:51 AM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek...But I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: OESY

BTTT


17 posted on 10/14/2004 10:38:37 AM PDT by spodefly (A torpid disinclination negates the inclusion of a tagline with this post.)
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To: OESY

Bush in good shape in Florida

Florida GOP and rat voter turnout in 2000 and 2002

2002

2,828,288 56% GOP

2,172,702 43% RAT


2000

2,909,176 49 % GOP

2,907,451 49 % RAT

Approx. 750,000 less rats turned out in 2002 than in 2000.

This in spite of the fact that 2002 was supposed to be "revenge" against Jeb for 2000

Kerry is not going to do any better than Gore, a lot of people that voted Gore last time are for Bush, the same can't be said for the rats.



I guess its just a coincidence, but 2002 was the first year they used those computer voting machines, doing away with those pesky chads.

Could it be that the stupid rats haven't figured out a way to cheat these machines yet, could that be a factor in the mystery of the disapearing dems?

After all, its a lot harder for these foaming at the mouth socialist morons who "lose" ballot boxes or punch thousands of ballots after the polls have closed in order to put their fellow crooks over the top to fool a computer.

No wonder they are pissed

W should break 3,000,000.






















18 posted on 10/14/2004 10:44:04 AM PDT by Rome2000 (The ENEMY for Kerry!!!!!)
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To: Brilliant
The Dems invested a whole lot here in Fla., and it appears they've lost.


The "true" DNC democracy in the U.S. at play (warming up = preparation for recounts!!!)
19 posted on 10/14/2004 11:56:20 AM PDT by danamco
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To: Jack Black

BLOAT



and tomorrow.


20 posted on 10/14/2004 12:41:51 PM PDT by AK2KX
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