Scandal-Scarred Vote Chief Replaced

[pnorman]

I just got the below via the Truth Out newsletter. This is HOT NEWS, and I don't recall seeing it here yet.

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Scandal-Scarred Vote Chief Replaced
By The Miami Herald

Thursday 25 December 2003

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Goard became embroiled in the presidential ballot controversy when attorney Harry Jacobs unsuccessfully sued her office over her handling of absentee ballots. Goard allowed Florida Republican Party workers to modify absentee-ballot requests in her office in the weeks leading up to the election. The GOP workers added voter-ID numbers to about 2,000 requests initially rejected by Goard's office. Jacobs, a Democrat, asked the courts to throw out the nearly 16,000 absentee ballots cast by Seminole County voters. Had Jacobs won, Al Gore would have defeated George W. Bush.
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The original article was short, but I truncated it to keep it within Fair Usage guidelines.
Here's the link: http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/7567737.htm
Here's the TruthOut link: http://www.truthout.org/docs_03/122603H.shtml

pnorman
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[RedEagle]

1. I note that Jeb's keeping it in the family, though

Hey, shouldn't the counties get to select the replacement?

[Eric J in MN]

2. Sandra Goard deserves to be prosecuted.

Sandra Goard deserves to be prosecuted.

The id number requirement is to make sure the absentee-ballots are from the actual voters. Maybe these ballots weren't. Letting Republican operatives go through private records and tamper with ballots is election fraud.

If a Democrat had engaged in similar behavior, that Democrat would have been prosecuted.