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Ken Mulvaney filed a handful of sworn statements from voters that he says bolster his claim that he was cheated out of a fair contest for mayor of Orlando. A judge in Mulvaney's election-fraud lawsuit against Mayor Buddy Dyer gave him until today to produce witness lists, affidavits and any other evidence to support his case. Mulvaney's attorney collected 19 statements from Orlando residents, including some who said Dyer's paid campaign worker, Ezzie Thomas, either filled out their absentee ballots for them, took completed ballots in unsealed envelopes or urged them to mark their ballots for Dyer.

By WDBO's: Mike Synan 07/02/2004 WDBO is getting it's first look at what evidence Ken Mulvaney and Lawanna Gelzer have in their lawsuit alledging ballot fraud in the Orlando Mayor's race. We told you two weeks ago about some of the affadavits filed by the city saying nothing was done wrong. AM 580 WDBO's Mike Synan continues our team coverage. At the center of this issue is the head of Orange County's League of Voters Ezzie Thomas. He was paid 10 thousand dollars by Mayor Buddy Dyer's reelection campaign. Several voters signed affadavits saying they gave Thomas a signed, but...

Law-enforcement agents raided Orlando City Hall on Friday and carted off computers used by top managers in the Fire Department as part of their widening investigation into possible election fraud in the mayor's race. Agents with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement would reveal few details of their inquiry, but a search warrant indicated that investigators are trying to determine whether city firefighters were improperly paid with taxpayer money while campaigning for Mayor Buddy Dyer. "It's part of our ongoing criminal investigation of election fraud," FDLE legal adviser Steve Brady said. "It's all related to the same issue, the mayoral-election...

Breaking News From The Guetzloe Report! Dyer Took Oath Of Office 17 1/2 hours earlier than official public swearing-in ceremony... Advised by Legal Counsel To Avoid Potential Court Order Stopping His Swearing In Due To Ballot Fraud Lawsuit & Aggressive FDLE Investigation. It will be reported in Sunday's Orlando Sentinel, that Buddy Dyer responded to legal advisor's insistence that he take the oath of office in the dead of night 17 1/2 hours prior to his official swearing-in ceremony. The ceremony, widely reported but attended by virtually no one, was actually just for show. Dyer was sworn in at midnight...

The state's top law-enforcement agency on Tuesday intensified its investigation into Orlando's March elections, saying the probe into potential voting irregularities and fraud could result in racketeering charges. The decision to move forward with the investigation was made after Florida Department of Law Enforcement representatives reviewed its evidence, including seized absentee-ballot envelopes, with the State Attorney's Office. The FDLE would not confirm the focus of its investigation, but said it included Mayor Buddy Dyer's race for re-election. Dyer avoided a runoff with his closest opponent, political newcomer Ken Mulvaney, with just 234 votes to spare.

Absentee ballots allow for the ultimate in arm-chair voting. You fill out a form, lick an envelope and sign your John Hancock -- all from the convenience of your living room. The state Legislature keeps making the process easier, but foes of the absentee strategy say it has gone too far.

Breaking News from The Guetzloe Report... Florida Department of Law Enforcement Agents have seized all of the absentee ballots that were cast in the recent City of Orlando Mayor's race. Yesterday, (5/20/04), agents served Orange County Supervisor of Elections Bill Cowles with a subpoena for all of the tainted absentee ballots cast in the March 9, 2004 Mayor's election. The ballot were removed from the Elections Supervisor's office and are now in the custody of FDLE investigators. This action was taken as part of an ongoing criminal investigation into the allegations of widespread fraud by the Dyer campaign during the...

MONDAY COURT DATE SET FOR JUDGE BRONSON TO HEAR MOTIONS FOR DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST DYER, PAGE IN ORLANDO ELECTION FRAUD LAWSUIT (ORLANDO) On Monday, May 17, 2004, at 11:00 a.m. Orange/Osceola Circuit Judge Theotis Bronson will hear the motions by Mulvaney attorney Frederic B. O'Neal for a default judgment against Buddy Dyer and Ernest Page in the City of Orlando election fraud case. This hearing is the next step in the effort by Mulvaney to invalidate the result of the March 9, 2004, Mayoral election. If successful, Dyer and Page would be removed from the upcoming trial. Attorney's for Dyer...

Ken Mulvaney for Mayor News Release MULVANEY LEGAL FILINGS SEEK DEFAULT JUDGMENT AGAINST DYER, PAGE - BLASTS CITY ATTORNEY'S ILLEGAL USE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO DEFEND DYER (Orlando) Frederic B. O'Neal, attorney for Orlando Mayoral candidate Ken Mulvaney today filed three motions in the Orlando ballot fraud lawsuit contesting the results of the March 9, 2004 Orlando Mayoral Election. The Mulvaney filings seek the following: - A default judgment against Buddy Dyer and Ernest Page for failure to comply with Judge Theotis Bronson's order dated April 8, 2004 that denied the Dyer motion to dismiss the election contest lawsuit and...

BREAKING NEWS FROM GUETZLOENEWS.COM (Orlando) Orange-Osceola Circuit Judge Theotis Bronson issued a ten (10) page ruling against Orlando Buddy Dyer and for Orlando Mayoral challenger Ken Mulvaney in the voter fraud case Mulvaney has filed against Dyer. Regarding the charges of ballot tampering and fraud by the Dyer campaign as alleged in the Mulvaney complaint, Judge Bronson stated... "this Court finds that such allegations, at a minimum, are sufficient to place the result of the election in doubt." In denying the Dyer motion to dismiss and the City of Orlando motion to dismiss, Judge Bronson ordered Dyer to answer the...

Losing Orlando mayoral candidate Ken Mulvaney filed a lawsuit in circuit court today alleging that more than 200 absentee ballots may have been fraudulent.

Fellow Orlandoans: (PLEASE FORWARD) We have known all along that Patty Sheehan is going to push for an amendment to Chapter 57 (transgender rights) if she is reelected. On the Gay/Lesbian website she has been writing that if she is successful in her reelection bid, great things are in store for "Our Community," meaning the Gay/Lesbian /Transgender/Bisexual community. This morning , March 4, on his radio program Shannon Burke (540 WFLA) reported that he has an inside source that confirms that Dyer, Sheehan and Daisy Lynum will support same sex marriages and benefits. Burke further stated that Dyer plans to...

History has been derailed. It was chugging along quite satisfactorily until the end of 2000: the Cold War long over, no threat of a major war anywhere, democracy spreading even to the most unexpected places by nonviolent means and a growing commitment to multilateralism in all the major powers. Now there is a great and greatly exaggerated fear of terrorism, American troops rule over 50 million deeply unhappy Muslims in Afghanistan and Iraq, the 55-year-old NATO alliance is starting to come apart under the strain and even the United Nations is at risk. Was the world bound to end up...