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A registered Independent, Yellin was prepared to vote for Vice President Al Gore and Senator Joseph Lieberman. But after leaving the polling place, like thousands of others who voted in Palm Beach County, he was not sure he had succeeded. After Yellin placed his ballot form in the appropriate slot and searched for where to press a pin into the hole next to Gore and Lieberman's names, he was baffled. "I searched for the Gore 'butterfly hole' and could not find it! The arrows to the right of the candidate's name, pointing to the proper 'butterfly hole' did not align properly!" Yellin wrote later in an affidavit filed to the Palm Beach Democratic National Committee branch. When word of Yellin's case hit the media, he received calls from senior Gore camp officials, who urged him to write an affidavit. By now the Gore camp has accumulated thousands of such testimonies. "I struggled to find the appropriate place for my vote, and tried to figure out which one it was by looking at the Bush hole and the others on the page. By a process of elimination, I chose the hole I thought was for Gore and Lieberman. I took 3-4 minutes to do this. It made me feel rather stupid, so I hid my stupidity, figuring that I voted my choice," Yellin said. Unlike thousands of voters who were confused by the difficult-to-decipher butterfly ballot, Yellin claims that his ballot and thousands of others shipped to heavily Jewish and African-American precincts were misprinted, making it impossible even for the savvy voters to cast an accurate vote. "As I left I heard [some] people complaining that it was difficult to vote for president and vice president. I did not have time to consult with these individuals, because I had my appointments. As I drove away, I had a gnawing feeling that something was not right, with the blame on me," he continued in his affidavit. The sample butterfly ballot mailed out before the election, moreover, was different from the one in the voting booth. When Yellin reached his synagogue, also serving as a polling place, at 7:45 that morning, the parking lot, he says, was "a beehive of activity." Midway through his morning sermon, Yellin's speech was interrupted by a synagogue staff member who announced there was trouble in the voting area. "I entered the precinct ahead of the lines and I was told by several people leaving that they had trouble voting their choice for president. In fact, one person was crying that she thought she had mistakenly voted for [Reform Party candidate Patrick] Buchanan," Yellin wrote. Yellin summoned the precinct supervisor and together they examined the ballots. They were identical to the one he had used earlier in the morning in the church. "I said to the supervisor that the arrows are completely misaligned with the holes and therefore the ballots could not be punched, expressing with certainty the intent of the voter. She agreed." Voting was temporarily interrupted and people were warned to exercise "great care" while voting. The precinct supervisor failed to reach officials in Palm Beach County election headquarters because the lines were engaged. Later that morning, Yellin was bombarded with complaints from congregants who feared they had mistakenly voted for Buchanan because of the flawed ballot. "At that point, I too put two and two together and I think I may have voted for Buchanan, a vote that would be anathema to my whole political disposition," Yellin says. At Friday night services, Yellin had planned to speak about the Rabin assassination and the anniversary of Kristallnacht, but instead he opened the floor to more than 500 worshipers who talked about their voting experiences a few days earlier. "It just so happens that the Buchanan factor surfaced most within Jewish and Afro-American areas and precincts. As an Afro-American pastor friend of mine said, 'There is no one in his congregation who would for a moment think of voting for Pat Buchanan.'" Buchanan received 3,500 votes in Palm Beach County, far more than the conservative politico himself deemed reasonable. "Why doesn't the government impound all the 'butterflies' and search for the misprinted ones?" Yellin wondered in his affidavit. As the battle over the butterfly ballots and the possibility of recounts in Florida entered its ninth day yesterday, Yellin called for a new election, an unlikely possibility at this point. "I think it should be done in the whole state. Only those who voted for Gore or Bush should vote. If anyone registered for the Green or Reform party they shouldn't be allowed to vote," he said. � 2000, The Jerusalem Post ***** http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_sperry_news/20001117_xnspy_not_pa nnin.sht ml ELECTION 2000 Not panning out in Panhandle? Despite estimates, few discouraged Bush voters have stepped forward ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -- By Paul Sperry � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- You've heard the estimates. Republicans claim the TV networks' premature Florida call for Al Gore convinced "thousands" of would-be George W. Bush voters in the state's Panhandle to sit out the election. The bad Gore projection "depressed the vote in the panhandle (and) disenfranchised people," said Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., who favors a re-vote across the state. A poll of 35,000 Panhandle voters by the Republican Leadership Council turned up 2,380 Bushies who say they decided not to vote after hearing Gore had won the state. But when it comes to putting names and faces to the estimates, the numbers dwindle in a hurry. After a week-long dragnet, Republicans have been able to scare up just a handful of Bush supporters willing to testify that they canceled trips to the polls after the networks gave Florida to Gore 11 minutes before polls closed in the Panhandle's Central time zone. And even some of those witnesses are impeachable. One lives 20 minutes from his polling place in White City, Fla., and probably wouldn't have been able to make it there in time to vote. Another isn't even registered to vote in the county that includes his Pensacola, Fla., neighborhood, WorldNetDaily has learned. The man's name and number were offered to the media yesterday by Rep. Cliff Stearns, R-Fla. Republicans had hoped to enlist discouraged Bush voters in the conservative Panhandle to offset the thousands of Gore voters in Palm Beach County who have signed statements -- at the urging of Gore consultants and aides -- swearing that they were "disenfranchised" by a "confusing" ballot. The affidavits are being used by Gore supporters to sue the county for a re-vote. Most of the anecdotal evidence of low turnout among Bush supporters comes from Republican poll workers and volunteers who say they either saw voters leave lines or heard about them doing so after the media called the battleground state early -- and mistakenly -- for Gore. "We've heard from five or six people who are precinct workers or volunteers who say there was a significant drop-off in the number of people standing in line," said Miguel Serrano, press secretary for Rep. Joe Scarborough, R-Fla., in an interview with WorldNetDaily. Last week, Escambia County Republican Party chairman Tom Gilliam told WorldNetDaily he'd heard the same thing from poll workers throughout the county, which includes Pensacola. But the stories have translated into few testimonials from actual voters. Last week, for example, two Pensacola-area radio talk shows asked listeners to call in with names of potential Bush voters who were put off by the early call. Some called in to say they'd heard of such people, but failed to produce any names. An aide to state Rep. Jerry Maygarden, R-Pensacola, told WorldNetDaily last week that several voters called her office claiming to witness people walking away from poll lines after the network announcements. WorldNetDaily followed up with several of the callers, but none could provide names. "That's surprising," Serrano said. "There should be 20,000 there (in the Panhandle)." Still, calls to Scarborough's own office have been light. And only one allegedly put-off Bush voter -- a Pensacola man -- has agreed to go public with his story of being "disenfranchised" by the media. Bob Glass says he was driving to the polls after work Nov. 7 when he heard a CNN radio report that Gore had taken the state. He says it was about 6:45 p.m. and he was about 15 miles away from his precinct. "I went straight to the house thinking, you know, what's the point? He's won the state," Glass told WorldNetDaily. "It's a pitiful thing to say that now in hindsight, but hindsight's 20-20." Glass says his brother, Brian, was with him and also decided not to vote for Bush. Both work at Glass' auto-glass shop in Pensacola. "It absolutely infuriates me that someone can make a call like that before the polls close," he said. "They need to be accurate." "They say they're not responsible (but) I don't agree with that," he said of the networks. "I feel disenfranchised," he added. Glass says he knows as many as 30 other people in Pensacola "who were disenfranchised by the same information." He says he would "be more than happy" to join a lawsuit against the networks. He also says he'd sue for another chance to vote for Bush. Indianapolis-based Committee for Honest Politics is suing the networks on behalf of potential Bush voter Michael Watson of White City, a small town in Gulf County about 80 miles southwest of Tallahassee. The group, which is run by Dan Perrin, who also heads the Republican Leadership Coalition and the Fairness Foundation, is also suing on behalf of discouraged Bush voters in Okaloosa and Bay counties, both in the Panhandle. The suit seeks an injunction against the TV networks and Voter News Service, which conducted exit polls for the networks, to stop them from making similar projections in future elections before all polls close in a state. It also names election officials as defendants and asks for a new election in Central time zone counties if hand recounts in other counties put Gore ahead in Florida. Glass said he "deeply" regrets not going ahead with voting, given Bush's razor-thin lead in the pivotal Florida election. Only, Glass more than likely wouldn't have been able to vote. He's not listed on the Escambia County voter-registration rolls, according to a clerk for the supervisor of elections. "We're not showing a Robert Glass with that address as a registered voter," said spokeswoman Wilma Davio. "It would be dreadfully embarrassing if he's not registered, but he's not." Asked about it, Glass expressed surprise. "I don't understand that," he said, "because I've got a stack of political mail on my table from Democrats and Republicans and I don't know where they would have gotten my address unless they got it from the voter-registration office." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -- Paul Sperry is Washington bureau chief for WorldNetDaily. ***** [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blame Monica! November 17, 2000 Dear friends, For the past week I have suffered this unbearable guilt that I may have put George W. Bush in the White House. I thought back to the time I first met with Ralph Nader and, secretly, we hatched The Plot. Our goal? To make this country suffer, suffer, SUFFER under George W. Bush! All we needed to do was convince just 300 people, preferably in a "swing state," to vote for Nader instead of Gore. Simple! Genius! That would put Bush in the White House and THAT would lead to mass revolution and THAT would lead to ... well, something. This stuff ALWAYS leads to something! I told Ralph, though, that "running" and hanging out with "celebrities" would NOT be enough. So I was dispatched to secretly meet with Al Gore. Using my incredible powers of persuasion, I was the one who persuaded Gore to ignore not only his traditional Democratic base, but also his home state of Tennessee in the campaign. He agreed! I then got him to prevent Clinton from campaigning in Arkansas. He went along with this also -- and together those two states cost him 16 critical electoral votes! So you can see why I have been convinced for the past week that it was me, all me, the one who is responsible for costing Gore the election. That is, until I saw the official results from Florida, as confirmed by Secretary of State/Bush Campaign Chair Katherine Harris: FLORIDA Presidential Results Precincts Reporting: 100% Al Gore, Dem 2,910,192 48.8% George W. Bush, GOP 2,910,492 48.8% Pat Buchanan, RP 17,472 0.3% Ralph Nader, Grn 97,422 1.6% Harry Browne, Lib 16,401 0.3% John Hagelin, NLP 2,273 0% James Harris, SWP 588 0% David McReynolds, Soc 618 0% Monica Moorehead, Workers World 1,805 0% Howard Phillips, CST 1,370 0% As I studied these results, I suddenly saw the true culprit, the one candidate responsible for putting Bush in the White House. And it was NOT Ralph Nader. It was MONICA MOOREHEAD! That's right. Monica Moorehead, Presidential Candidate of the Worker's World Party. Ms. Moorehead received 1,805 votes in Florida, 1,500 more votes than what now separates Bush and Gore. Had Monica not been on the ballot, it is safe to assume that at least 300 of her supporters would have voted for Al Gore! Exit polls confirm this fact. Al Gore was the second choice of over half of the Moorehead voters! The Worker's World Party is a socialist political organization that has been around for decades. They are the ones who always have the best-looking banners at any political demonstration (black italic lettering on a yellow-orange background). They are for unions, a fair distribution of the wealth, and are pro-choice, pro-environment and pro-gay. You can see why, if they had nowhere else to go, Moorehead voters would have held their nose and voted for Gore. And we wouldn't be in the mess we're in right now! I hold Monica Moorehead personally responsible for all the havoc a Bush presidency will wreak. If women are forced to return to back alley coathanger abortions, it will be because of Monica. If the Alaskan wilderness is ravaged by corporate greed, it will be because of Monica. If we are unable to repel an attack of Martians, it will be because of Monica. What kind of weird, sick ego filled this candidate, compelling her to run and do so much damage? Oh, I get it -- "principle!" She was running for "principle," not to actually WIN. Hey, get a clue, Monica -- this is the REAL world the rest of us live in. While you decided to have your ego party and travel the country with celebrities, the rest of us were trying to do something practical. Was it simply your greed to get matching federal funds in the next election? Was that what your candidacy was all about? Money for YOU? I read in Salon.com you live in a Park Ave. penthouse! And they are NEVER wrong!! So while you get rich in the next four years, selling your pamphlets on "The Dialectic of Political Reform in Socialist Romania 1951-1984," the rest of us will just have to suffer! Well, I for one, will not let this drop. I encourage everyone to shun Monica Moorehead. If she enters a room, just leave. If she speaks to you, tell her that she is a "non-person" and then leave. When her name comes up in conversation, change the subject -- and then leave. If she comes on TV, switch the channel. If they put her name on a candy bar, don't eat it. If you find yourself in the same restaurant as her, don't order what she has ordered. And don't ever go back to that restaurant because you may end up drinking from the same glass she drank from! Let us all make the name "Monica Moorehead" synonymous with EVIL. Do NOT return her calls. Delete her name from your Palm Pilot. I have read some of Monica's latest comments in the past couple days as she has attacked the vote fraud in Florida. Hey, Monica -- you're a little late, aren't you? Where were you when you were helping Bush get elected? Why didn't you drop out of the race when you saw how close it was? All our lives we have respected you, and now you just went and blew it! Why should we listen to you from this point on? You say we should "take to the streets of West Palm Beach!" How the hell do you expect us to do that when we have to spend time writing you these angry letters? I am announcing the formation of the "Blame Monica Movement." Heretofore, whenever anyone wants to know WHO is responsible for putting Bush in the White House, you just tell them, "IT WAS MONICA!" Blame Monica! Yours, Michael Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.michaelmoore.com P.S. This Saturday, November 18, may be the last chance to take to the streets to stop "The Bush Ballot Theft." Rallies and demonstrations are being held in cities all over the country at 1pm. Click here to find out where: www.geocities.com/countercoup Let's get thousands out there and make our voices heard. No matter which candidate each of us voted for, we must insist that the person with the most votes gets the job. Remember -- if this kind of thievery can take place amongst the two corporate-controlled parties, just imagine what they would do to us if we ever got close with a viable third party! If they get away with this, they will be able to get away with anything. Take a stand on Saturday. P.P.S. Tonight (Friday) on "The Awful Truth" (Bravo, 8pm and 11pm ET), we send our Congressional Pimp to walk the halls of Congress. Don't miss this lesson in democracy at work! Also, we present our salute to Male Apartheid! If you are interested in a free subscription to The Konformist Newswire, please visit http://www.eGroups.com/list/konformist/ and sign up. Or, e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject: "I NEED 2 KONFORM!!!" (Okay, you can use something else, but it's a kool catch phrase.) Visit the Klub Konformist at Yahoo!: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/klubkonformist
