-Caveat Lector-
[The Bush camp charged that Gore workers systematically
challenged overseas ballots with undated military postmarks and
got 900 to 1,000 tossed out.]
DUBYA'S TEAM RIPS DEM 'CON' JOB
Sunday,November 19,2000
By BRIAN BLOMQUIST and DEBORAH ORIN
The New York Post
George W. Bush's team charged yesterday that convicts voted for
president while Al Gore's team challenged ballots from U.S.
troops overseas for fear they'd back the Republican.
"How can felons be allowed to vote while the men and women in our
armed forces cannot?" demanded Montana Gov. Marc Racicot, a Bush
ally.
"When the American people learn about these things, they're going
to ask themselves, 'What in the name of God is going on here?'"
he said.
Bush is clinging to a 930-vote lead in Florida, which will decide
the next president, but Gore allies hope to find 931 more votes
in controversial hand recounts in three heavily Democratic
counties.
The charges about felons, some convicted of rape and murder, and
soldiers came as Team Bush ripped Florida's hand recounts as
"completely untrustworthy" chaos and fraud aimed at stealing the
election for Gore.
Bush aides say they have affidavits alleging punch-card ballots
were manhandled, trampled, used as fans, taped over to cover Bush
votes, shaken to dislodge partial punchouts - and that Bush
ballots were stuck in Gore piles in deliberate "sabotage" of the
vote. The race that will decide the president is on hold until
tomorrow when the Florida Supreme Court decides whether to
require that the Gore-backed hand recounts be included in the
official tally.
The Miami Herald reported yesterday that at least 39 felons - 32
Democrats, three independents and four Republicans - illegally
cast Florida absentee ballots in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area.
The paper estimated that if felons voted in equal numbers
elsewhere in Florida, then 2,000 cast illegal ballots.
The Bush camp charged that Gore workers systematically challenged
overseas ballots with undated military postmarks and got 900 to
1,000 tossed out.
Gore spokesman Chris Lehane retorted that Bush was injecting
"raw, crass partisan politics into a situation that ought to be
guided by the laws of our land."
But speaking for Bush, Racicot, a former Army prosecutor and
state attorney general, charged:
* "Chads," or punchouts, are being taped over on ballots to cover
up holes punched out for Bush.
He said two witnesses filed sworn affidavits that they saw it
happen in Palm Beach but that Democratic election supervisor
Theresa LePore "has simply brushed off these concerns and these
objections."
* Bush ballots were stuck into stacks of Gore ballots to be
counted as Gore votes and fraudulently inflate Gore's total.
He contended an unnamed Democratic observer apologized when he
found some Bush ballots in a Gore pile and admitted, "The ballots
were different last night, and in his [the Democrat's] words had
been sabotaged."
"We have no idea how often this has occurred," added Racicot, who
said a Republican observer named Jim Williams saw the co-mingling
of ballots but was unable to get an explanation from election
officials.
* Punch-card ballots were used as fans by hand counters,
potentially dislodging the punchout and creating new "votes."
He noted that the Democratic chairman of the Palm Beach County
canvassing board "had to warn the counters not to use the ballots
as fans."
* Ballots were found with "Post-It" notes stuck over the punchout
area for presidential votes.
* At 2 a.m. Thursday, an elderly counter dropped 20 to 60
ballots on the floor, and some were trampled.
* In two precincts results were "so flawed" that a second
hand-recount was conducted.
* There are different standards for counting ballots at different
tables in the same county, as well as "multiple touching and
tapping" of ballots that could dislodge punchouts.
* In Broward County (Ft. Lauderdale), the same officials serve
as partisan Democratic observers one day and supposedly impartial
ballot inspectors the next.
* That "chads" are being dislodged from ballots, presumably
creating new "votes" because of handling.
* The hand counts are being conducted on a partisan basis
because, "Every questionable ballot is decided by a
Democratic-dominated canvassing board." Two of the three counties
doing hand recounts have 2-1 Democratic majorities and the third
is 3-0.
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