It is noteworthy that conduct of this type, designed to discriminate against military personnel voting by absentee ballot, is a Federal Felony, punishable by fines and 5 years imprisonment.

The identity of the letter writer and his/her county in Florida has been protected. However, the person involved has been encouraged to file a formal declaration under penalty of perjury with appropriate state officials.

It is 11:30 PM and I have just returned from the count of absentee ballots, that started at 4PM.

Gore had five attorneys there, these sole objective was to disenfranchise the military absentee voter. Most of these attorneys were from the Melbourne Law firm of ...[name withheld]. They challenged each and every vote. Their sole intent was to disqualify each and every absentee voter. They constantly challenged Military Votes that were clearly legitimate but they were able to disqualify them on a technicality.

I have never been so frustrated in all my life as I was to see these people fight to prevent our active duty Military from voting. They succeeded in a number of cases denying the vote to these fine Men and Women.

They did this in all counties around the State. In Orange County they succeeded in getting 117 of the 137 absentee ballots cast out. This was a deliberate all out assault on the Armed Forces solely to sustain the Draft Dodger and his flunky.

These people must have a hard time looking at themselves in a mirror, to deliberately prevent these people from voting. The errors were technical and beyond the power of the voter. They denied a number of votes postmarked Queens NY, ballots that were clearly ordered from overseas, clearly returned from overseas, and verified by the Post Office that DOD uses the Queens post office to handle overseas mail, were denied because it didn't say APO. They denied military votes postmarked out of Jacksonville, knowing full well it came from ships at sea and was flown into Jacksonville.

Their intent and direction was clearly to invalidate the Military Vote at all costs. This is what you can expect from a Gore administration a further trampling on the Military and more trampling on your rights

I take personal offense at their actions, and am completely appalled by this action. The attorneys there treated it all as a joke, and when my wife protested their actions she was told she didn't understand..

I don't honestly know what if anything we can do, I am open to suggestions, especially from attorneys.

Our Supervisor of Elections did a superb job of fighting to keep these ballots in the count but lost on a 2 to 1 vote twice. Fred is to be commended for his efforts I am still so furious I could go on all night but I better quit

count went as follows
Bush 54

Gore 17

Nadir 1

Buchanan 1

Over 30 votes were disqualified

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