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Fla. Drops Charges Over 2002 Primary (Oliphant Walks)
Washington Post & AP ^ | February 16, 2007

Posted on 02/17/2007 4:42:05 PM PST by Mr. Brightside

Edited on 02/17/2007 4:54:35 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Florida Elections Commission dropped all charges and potential fines Friday against former Broward County elections supervisor Miriam Oliphant, ending a four-year saga stemming from a botched primary.

Oliphant was suspended from office by then-Gov. Jeb Bush after the 2002 primary, when nearly two dozen polls opened late.


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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election; florida; oliphant

1 posted on 02/17/2007 4:42:09 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside

link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/16/AR2007021602356.html


2 posted on 02/17/2007 4:45:30 PM PST by Mr. Brightside
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To: Mr. Brightside; All

Who the hell is this woman sleeping with .. or who does she have dirt on that she is allowed to commite such gross election abuses and not even a slap on the hand ..??


3 posted on 02/17/2007 4:45:34 PM PST by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: CyberAnt

Three factors:

Political Affiliation
Sex
Ethnicity

No rich white boys to pillory here, next case


4 posted on 02/17/2007 4:50:16 PM PST by centurion316 (Democrats - Supporting Al Qaida Worldwide)
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To: centurion316

Ethnicity? Race??


5 posted on 02/17/2007 4:51:23 PM PST by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
Justice? You people want justice???

Dream on.

6 posted on 02/17/2007 4:54:47 PM PST by Humidston
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To: Mr. Brightside

I am not sure our nanny government knows best. In fact they are idiots. This woman should be prosecuted.


7 posted on 02/17/2007 5:05:57 PM PST by freekitty
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To: Old Professer
Yeah a Negro women.
8 posted on 02/17/2007 5:19:39 PM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Old Professer

Yeah a negro women.


9 posted on 02/17/2007 5:20:11 PM PST by Unicorn (Too many wimps around.)
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To: Mr. Brightside
The elections commission in 2004 found that she "willfully" broke state election laws. In August, however, an administrative law judge found that the commission was improperly applying the word "willfully" in Oliphant's case and recommended that the charges be dropped.

Right, well I guess it's not "willful" if you are a) an airhead who happens to be a minority electee in a predominantly Democratic county, b) allowed to indulge in cronyism and to successfully harass experienced non-minority workers into quitting, and c) spread that budget around to all the dear people who got you, with zero capability, such a cushy job.

(And her successor's doing a bang-up job: we got new voter reg cards for the 2006 election -- with just a minor problem: they had someone's else's names and addresses on them.)

10 posted on 02/17/2007 5:30:42 PM PST by browardchad
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To: CyberAnt

She is a Democrat, female and black...enough said!


11 posted on 02/17/2007 6:37:10 PM PST by mort56
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To: mort56

Well .. the culture of corruption rolls on!!


12 posted on 02/17/2007 6:46:58 PM PST by CyberAnt (Drive-By Media: Fake news, fake documents, fake polls)
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To: Mr. Brightside
So she can claim she is not willfully incompetent, simply congenitally incompetent?
13 posted on 02/17/2007 8:30:56 PM PST by NonValueAdded (Prevent Glo-Ball Warming ... turn out the sun when not in use)
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To: CyberAnt

She's is a she, and she is black.


14 posted on 02/18/2007 3:49:05 AM PST by Joe Boucher (an enemy of islam)
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