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About 22,000 Palm Beach County voters received absentee ballots this week with outdated instructions telling them their signatures must be witnessed or their votes won't count.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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"Everybody looked at it and nobody caught it," LePore said of the mistake. "It's my fault because everything goes through me."
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/local_news/epaper/2004/08/12/s6b_absentees_0812.htmlOnce again, Theresa LePore proves her incompetence. I wonder what she will do in Nov to throw the election to W?