Absentee ballot mailed to voters includes obsolete instructions (Palm B.)

[Snazzy]

Absentee ballot mailed to voters includes obsolete instructions
By George Bennett

Thursday, August 12, 2004

About 22,000 Palm Beach County voters received absentee ballots this week with outdated instructions telling them their signatures must be witnessed or their votes won't count.

A Florida law that took effect July 1 eliminates the requirement that a witness sign an absentee voter's ballot.

Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore said she and other elections employees didn't notice that a paragraph of instructions on the return envelope for the ballot included a sentence stating that "failure to sign this certificate and have my signature property (sic) witnessed will invalidate my ballot."

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2004/08/12/s6b_absentees_0812.html

[MidwestTransplant]

1. These people are absolute morons

HOW CAN THEY NOT READ THINGS. I just can't believe this level of incompetence.

[Walt Starr]

2. Wasn't Theresa LaPore the same election official who

created the now infamous "butterfly ballot"?

[TahitiNut]

11. Yup. Butterfly LaPore also registers as a Dem/Rep as "convenient"

... for her to continue to be employed.

[AntiCoup2K4]

3. Theresa LeWhore strikes again

Fucking treasonous (insert favorite offensive term here)! :grr:

[soothsayer]

4. Jeez, if they can F things up there, they will!

Poor florida

[Judi Lynn]

5. UNBEARABLE. I guess we should start with the understanding

they WILL keep a lot of Democrats out, any way possible. Imagine, Theresa LePore's involved in this too. How can that be? As rare as lightning striking the same place twice? Probably not.

Democrats should insist she's replaced. She's a hard-bitten Republican functionary, who only appeared to become a Democrat right before the 2000 Presidential "election." Odd timing.



From this collect I just found:
http://www.spectrumz.com/z/pr_posters_2.html

[Zorra]

6. Probably on orders from Glenda the Hood.

[Ruby Romaine]

7. why isn't she voted out? what's the deal w/Anderson? Isn't a primary

election being held later this month?

[tom_paine]

8. NO WITNESS REQUIRED IN FLORIDA NOW?

Wow, they are quite brazen and upfront about their Voter Fraud, aren't they?

[wildeyed]

9. Their incompetence

is beyond the scope of human understanding.

I am so glad I don't live in FL. My brain would simple explode with rage and disbelief.

[Reciprocity]

10. Strange that this is not on their official web site.

Palm Beach County
http://www.pbcelections.org/

This is good news are would be if they count the votes.


Palm Beach County up nearly 50,000 voters since 2000
<snip>
There are 705,020 voters signed up to cast ballots in the contest between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, according to the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections Office.
That's up from 658,837 in 2000.
<snip>
The number of registered Republicans has decreased in the past four years, while the number of Democrats and others has increased.
So far, there are 228,119 registered Republicans, down from 231,626 in 2000. There are 317,881 registered Democrats, up from 296,626 in 2000. The number of voters registered to other parties or no party is 159,020, up
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/local_news/epaper/2004/08/06/s5c_voters_0806.html

[MasonJar]

12. I vote that Florida secede from the union and take Jeb and his

idiot brother with him. Just kidding, Fla DU's

[Skarbrowe]

13. I moved to Florida in 1998

and later that year Jeb Bush was elected Governor. It's been all down hill from there. Florida is too damn hot for me, South Florida is not the friendliest place in the world, coming from rural Indiana, I had to watch a presidential election stolen right in my backyard, there are TOO many people, cars, rudeness, uh..HURRICANES and did I mention that it was HOT?

Question is why do I stay? My reason is financial at the moment. When the time is right, I am gone.

Now, to people who live in Florida and love it. There are places in this state that are breathtakingly beautiful. During the winter, after hurricane season, it's a paradise. I did live in Orlando for over a year and I was very happy there. But, I realized it was still way too hot for me during the summer months.

It's true about the political rage. I've been in constant anger mode since Nov-Dec 2000. If Bush steals it again this November and after reading Black-Box Voting by Bev Harris, I see no reason why he can't, I will have to leave. Emotionally and physically I don't think I will be able to handle it.

You can take the girl out of Indiana, but you can't take Indiana out of the girl.

Skarbrowe