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Monday December 11 4:03 PM ET
Court Upholds Military Ballots
ATLANTA (AP) - An appeals court on Monday agreed with a federal
judge who refused to throw out 2,400 of Florida's overseas
ballots, mostly from military personnel, because they arrived
after Election Day.
A three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
(news - web sites) said the ruling by U.S. District Judge
Maurice Paul in Gainesville, Fla., was consistent with recent
comments by Florida's highest court about the workings of the
absentee ballot law.
The lawsuit brought by Democratic voters sought to eliminate
enough ballots to change the election results in Vice President
Al Gore (news - web sites)'s favor. Republican George W. Bush
(news - web sites) led by less than 200 votes as election
challenges continued in the U.S. Supreme Court (news - web sites)
and elsewhere Monday.
``While Florida law seems to favor counting ballots, this change
would take away the votes of thousands of Florida citizens -
including members of America's armed forces on duty outside of
the country pursuant to the nation's orders - who, to cast their
ballots, just did what they were told by Florida's election
officials,'' the appeals court said.
The appeals court rejected the claims of lawyers representing 13
individual Democratic voters whose lawsuits were combined before
Paul.
The lawsuits claimed that state and federal laws, along with the
U.S. Constitution, require all ballots to be received by the
close of the polls on Election Day.
Roger Bernstein, a New York lawyer for the voters, said an appeal
was likely.
``The decision seems inconsistent with the enacted laws of
Florida,'' he said.
Joseph Klock, a Miami, Fla., lawyer for the Republicans, was
returning from arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court and could
not immediately return a telephone call for comment, according to
his office.
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