Anyone remember Bush I going to Spain (?) to collect military ballots?

[JanMichael]

During the 2000 debacle?

Didn't he go somewhere to bring back absentee military ballots?

Is my memory shot here or have we forgotten some additional problems with sElection 2000?

[JanMichael]

1. Anyone?

My "googling" ability isn't producing crap right now...

[dofus]

2. I don't recall anything like that.

Absentee ballots that were postmarked after election day, or had no postmark at all, were counted, however, in clear contradiction of the law. But I'm pretty sure Bush didn't go to Spain to collect ballots.

[phoebe]

3. I don't remember Spain but Yemen figured prominently in 2000

- rather interesting as election.com was initially tied to Saudi Arabia but it turned out to be Yemen..and of course, the USS Cole..

[grasswire]

4. Bush and Schwarzkopf were over there somewhere...

...IIRC.

Here's something from Time Magazine, Nov. 27, 2000:

The key node is Baker to Cheney - the former Secretaries of State and Defense under President Bush, two men who fought the Gulf War together in 1991 and are fighting the Florida war together now. On the day after the election, Baker, who has been an occasional adviser to the son this year, was all set to go hunting in Spain with an eclectic group: Bush's father, the former President, along with Schwarzkopf, former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight and King Juan Carlos. Then Baker got a call from Bush campaign chairman Don Evans. "I hope you don't think this is a crazy idea," Evans said, "but would you be open to leading our Florida team?" Baker said sure. He's used to getting the we-need-you call from the Bushes, and though he expects no role in a possible Bush Administration, he's pleased to be helping. "Cheney and Baker are running this show," says an official. "They are making decisions and telling W., ŒThis is the deal.' I'm not saying it's bad. That's how Reagan did it."

[grasswire]

5. here's a real interesting article...

...but it doesn't specifically mention what you want to find.

http://www.njpcgreens.org/militaryrole.html

[SoCalDem]

6. you might find it here

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=overseas+florida+ballots+2000&btnG=Google+Search

salon :: :: politics :: feature :: Florida sent duplicate ballots ...
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[Dookus]

7. I never heard that...

and I really doubt a former President would be sent to do a courier's job.

[Bridget Burke]

8. It was a "working holiday"

He supposedly went to Spain for the opening of a Spanish branch of the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center.

http://quest.cjonline.com/stories/111400/gen_1114006843.shtml

One wonders, however, why he took General Schwarzkopf with him. I did, at the time.