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Florida Ballot Lawsuit Plaintiff Advised Nelson in Senate Race
By Justin Torres
CNS Senior Staff Writer November 10, 2000
(CNSNews.com) - Andre Fladell, the Palm Beach County, Fla.,
resident who is a plaintiff in a lawsuit seeking a new
presidential vote in his county because of an allegedly confusing
ballot, is a long-time Democratic operative in the area who
advised Democratic Senator-elect Bill Nelson of Florida.
Scott Aaronson, a spokesperson for Nelson said he was unable to
confirm Fladell's specific role in the Nelson campaign, though he
said that Fladell is "a personal friend of the Nelson family."
Nelson won election to the Senate Tuesday, defeating Republican
Bill McCollum by a 51-46% margin.
After filing his lawsuit Wednesday, Fladell told CNSNews.com, "I
leave the voting booth and I go to the beach and I'm with my
friends, they say, 'Boy, that was the toughest ballot I ever
saw,' and I'm laughing because I'm thinking they're not too
bright. Turns out I wasn't too bright."
When asked how nearly 270,000 Palm Beach County voters apparently
did vote for Gore rather than Buchanan or some other candidate,
Fladell speculated that it was because some "people who don't
vote a lot have an advantage. People who vote a lot have a
disadvantage."
"People who have never voted will take a lot more time," to
examine the ballot, Fladell continued. "People who vote
regularly just assume it's the same as it always is," he said,
explaining that previous ballots listed the Democratic candidate
and corresponding punch hole second on the list of nominees.
But Fladell, according to a 1999 Broward-Palm Beach New Times
article, is a longtime Democratic operative in the county who has
been dubbed "the Prince of Palm Beach County" for his hardball
political tactics.
Fladell has been involved in zoning and residential fights in
Palm Beach County in the past, and recently lead an effort to
have the local education superintendent removed form office.
The article from December 16, 1999, also says that Fladell has
served as an unofficial advisor to several statewide candidates
in Florida, including Senate challenger Nelson.
In the 1999 article, a former friend of Fladell's who was the
target of an effort to deny him reelection to the Florida state
house, said that Fladell "long ago did stand up for the little
guy, the homeowner, the right things."
But, said Barry Silver, "He's become so involved in political
intrigue that those sentiments long have been subsumed by other
feelings."
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