Posted on 10/05/2008 3:43:02 PM PDT by South40
A Florida -attorney retained by the Democratic Party organized a statewide effort to disqualify as many overseas absentee ballots as possible-including those posted by members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Florida counties subsequently rejected over 1,200 of these ballots for many reasons, including bearing domestic postmarks or no postmarks at all.
War veterans in Congress as well as Floridian Medal of Honor recipients have decried this as a "plan and design to disenfranchise the overseas military vote in Florida." The Republican Party has sued county canvassing boards for rejecting many of the ballots, arguing that federal law requires their acceptance.
Adding to the confusion, different counties have used different standards in determining the validity of the ballots.
Florida law generally requires that absentee ballots be received by Election Day, but overseas voters get a 10-day extension for presidential elections. State statutes, taken together with rules promulgated by the state's election division, require that all absentee ballots be signed by the voter and a witness, and either dated or postmarked by Election Day. During the 10 days after the election, only those ballots with foreign or military postmarks are accepted-to ensure that no domestic voters receive the extension.
On Friday, November 17, when county canvassing boards began examining the overseas absentee. ballot envelopes, Democratic attorneys lobbied the boards to reject most of them, and Republican lawyers urged their acceptance.
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So it has started already. With michiganistan it portends how the dems are going to try to win. McCain better have 1 to 2 mill popular vote with if he expects to win at all.
And these are the people who want to be in charge of our military... to use them as a tool to do their bidding as they see fit? We need to kick all the liberal socialists out of power!
This was back in 2000 with the Bush/Gore fiasco. I'm not sure how this has been resolved for today's environment.
The article is from 2000, but I’ll bet the Dems will still be pulling this stunt in 2008; disenfranchise citizen soldiers but allow illegals, dead, and outright fictitious persons to vote via organizations like ACORN.
This is no surprise, don’t they do this every year?
GEESH!
Even I KNEW this was coming.
Demoncrats HATE the military and typically vote REPUBLICAN.
After systamatically eliminating the military vote, I can't imagine how anyone in the military could support a dim, unless, of course, they are doing so because he and they are black.
Military Times Poll: Troops backing McCain 68% to 23%
lucianne
Posted on 10/05/2008 3:29:14 PM PDT by flyfree
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098214/posts
Voter Fraud Expected to Be Rampant
NY Post | 10/5/2008 | John Fund
Posted on 10/05/2008 3:28:39 PM PDT by markomalley
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2098213/posts
Give the Rat elections officer plants the choice of counting the ballots regardless of their trick state laws and shyster lawyers or going right to prison, one after the other till some clerk counts the ballots.
No rational person, for example, would be against picture I.D. at voting booths.
The one-and-only reason that DEMOCRATS are against picture I.D. is because it's more difficult to game the votes with identification requirements.
This is the most transparent of all visible lies, and nobody can argue otherwise.
And, shifting the thesis slightly, to look at the issue from another angle...
Illegal Aliens...The real Democrat Super Delegates
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So it has started already. With michiganistan it portends how the dems are going to try to win. McCain better have 1 to 2 mill popular vote with if he expects to win at all.”
Factoid:
New Mexico has ordered 2.5 million printed ballots. WHY?
New Mexico has only 1.1 million registered voters......
The mischief has already started.
FReepers need to be poll watchers...especially in south FL.
“only 1.1 million registered voters”
That says it all.
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