Explaining SWP stronghold in Florida

[Steve Perry]

ok, but this makes no sense, does it? if there were all these erroneous (or
fraudulent) third-party votes in volusia, where did they go upon recount?
they obviously haven't been added to gore's or bush's tally. there seems to
be no accounting for them at all in the ap's reporting on the recount.

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Subject: Explaining SWP stronghold in Florida


>From Salon today about the weirdness in Volusia:

"In Volusia, Socialist Workers Party candidate James E. Harris got 9,888
votes on the first count, but his tally dwindled to 8 on the recount. And
according to CNN, other third party candidates got another 9,000 votes in
the county in the first count. Democratic Party officials say a computer
error may have caused the outsized vote for minor candidates. On Election
Night, Democrats complained that Gore's vote total dipped a mysterious
10,000 votes in the middle of the vote counting. Republicans also charged
fraud in Volusia, and for a time yellow police tape closed the county's
elections office."