New elections chief Anderson learns ropes, as LePore bids farewell
http://tinyurl.com/3ueuyBy George Bennett
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Sunday, December 05, 2004
ORLANDO — As Palm Beach County Elections Supervisor Theresa LePore
exchanged tearful goodbye hugs with fellow elections chiefs at one end
of a hotel conference room last week, Arthur Anderson stood at the
other end and exchanged business cards with elections software
vendors.
The room was large enough and crowded enough for LePore and Anderson
to plausibly avoid interacting with each other.
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When her colleagues paid tribute to her Tuesday, activists from the
group Black Box Voting suddenly appeared on stage and, with a video
camera rolling, "served" LePore with a public-records lawsuit.
The group has been tussling with several Florida elections chiefs. But
it singled out LePore, who even as a lame duck remains a marquee name
in elections administration.
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