Question regarding Floridians turned away at the polls

kelley kwalker2 at gte.net
Fri Nov 10 12:26:13 PST 2000


At 02:28 PM 11/10/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Does someone have any more concrete information about the people who were
>turned away at the polls in Florida? Anything more concrete than "it seems
>to have happened?" How many people were turned away? Which polling booths
>did ths happen at? Are we talking about hundreds of votes, thousands of
>votes, or tens of thousands?
>
>This seems like the clincher for Al Gore, and would (in my view)
>necessitate some kind of remedy. I go back and forth over the Palm Beach
>ballot issue, but I would think being turned away from the voting booth and
>not allowed to cast a ballot would be deemed unacceptable by the courts.
>
>Brett

in general, the sptimes.com has been pretty good.

but this is what i have, mostly from phil agre.

Problems at Polls Prevent Hundreds from Casting Votes http://www.herald.com/content/today/docs/067127.htm

Volusia Elections Votes for Manual Recount http://orlandosentinel.com/news/1109vol.htm

Voters Statewide Say They Had Poll Troubles http://www.sptimes.com/News/110900/Election2000/Voters_statewide_say_.shtml

Voting Irregularities, Chaos Reported in Florida http://cnews.tribune.com/news/story/0,1162,oso-nation-82375,00.html http://cnews.tribune.com/news/story/0,1162,sunsentinel-elections2000-82375,00.html

Protesters stay the night Black FAMU students throng the Capitol rotunda. They complained of voting irregularities and disfranchisement. http://sptimes.com/News/111000/Election2000/Protesters_stay_the_n.shtml

Voters allege mischief http://www.tdo.com/news/local/1108.loc.complaints.htm

Florida's Voting Scrutinized All Over State http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:TOPHOME2/1:TOPHOME21109100.html

Jacksonville City Council Members Call for Voter Registration Investigation http://jacksonville.com/special/election2000/stories/citycouncil.html

Pensacola Investigating Fraud Allegation http://www.usatoday.com/news/vote2000/pensacola.htm

Pensacola Ballot Prompts Fraud Invesigation http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/Today/Local/ST001.shtml

Florida Recount May Take Days http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53600-2000Nov9.html

Judges Have Power to Overturn Elections http://www.tampatrib.com/MGAKOB7XBFC.html

letter reporting duplicate absentee ballots http://www.salon.com/letters/daily/2000/11/09/results/index1.html

Dade's Ballot System Delays Tally http://www.herald.com/content/today/docs/098048.htm

webcast of Miami talk radio stations http://www.broadcast.com/radio/news/WIOD/ http://www.broadcast.com/radio/talk/WINZ/

Presidential Election Law http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/election2000.htm



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