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Florida County To Give Away Unused Ballots (Free Chad)
The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
| 02Jan03
Posted on 01/02/2003 8:12:25 AM PST by leadpenny
Fla. County To Give Away Unused Ballots
It's a chance of a lifetime to own a piece of history _ chads and all.
Hillsborough County elections officials are giving away 140,000 unused ballots _ complete with attached chads _ printed for the maligned punch-card machines retired after the 2000 election debacle, said Pam Iorio, the county's elections supervisor.
Anyone wanting some free ballots may pick them up during business hours Thursday or Friday in Iorio's office in downtown Tampa or at the Elections Service Center in suburban Brandon.
All Florida counties that used punch cards in 2000 have since shifted to modern voting machines, such as touch-screen systems.
Ballots that were used in the presidential election and its disputed recounts are sitting in warehouses around the state, while officials decide whether they should be saved for posterity.
TOPICS: Announcements; Government; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: cheneyshouse; getoverit; gorelost; hangingchad
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posted on
01/02/2003 8:12:25 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: leadpenny
Maybe we should mail Al Gore 542 of them, just as keepsakes.
2
posted on
01/02/2003 8:21:48 AM PST
by
Hodar
To: leadpenny
3
posted on
01/02/2003 8:29:28 AM PST
by
BufordP
To: Hodar
Someone should definitely go in and scoop those up!!!! Send one to me -- I'll pay!!! :)
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posted on
01/02/2003 8:30:23 AM PST
by
JohnnyZ
To: Hodar
All the whining democrats should get a batch of them as mementos. Mary Francis Berry should get a whole box.
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posted on
01/02/2003 8:30:28 AM PST
by
leadpenny
To: leadpenny
WATCH. A few days after they give away those ballots, someone will announce that 20,000 or so missing votes for Gore were discovered. Just watch.
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posted on
01/02/2003 9:13:39 AM PST
by
PetroniDE
To: leadpenny
They will reappear in the next election - all for Dems of course and there will be a big legal battle to get them all counted
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posted on
01/02/2003 11:03:28 AM PST
by
trebb
To: leadpenny
Let me guess, in a couple of weeks the DNC will claim they found about 140,000 ballots that show Gore won the 2000 election in Florida by a land slide.
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posted on
01/02/2003 11:31:28 AM PST
by
FreeTally
To: trebb
The ballots were outlawed before the 2002 election. We dont use punch-cards anymore.
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posted on
01/02/2003 11:32:18 AM PST
by
FreeTally
To: leadpenny
Who'd want them? They're all pre-punched for Gore...
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