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deminflorida Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-04 04:16 PM
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The Florida FIX is in....need help to Counter!!!
Edited on Thu Oct-28-04 04:17 PM by deminflorida
"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - With voters jamming phone lines saying they haven’t received absentee ballots in the mail, elections officials planned to mail out thousands of replacement ballots."

"Attention focused on a batch of 58,000 Broward ballots given to the Postal Service on Oct. 7-8. Though some voters have completed and returned ballots mailed those days, hundreds of others have called to complain their forms have not arrived. It was unclear how many absentee ballots were affected."

"Snipes estimated she would resend no more than 20,000 ballots, but about 76,000 ballots sent by her office have not been returned. Overnight mail was to be used to send new ballots to voters living outside the county, such as college students."

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6346293/

NOW I SEE IT....It's the College Students they are trying to block the vote on!!!

Everyone on DU needs to Email the Young Democratic Organizations at Florida State, University of Florida, and all other Florida state schools....

If Local Kerry/Edwards Offices get the word out that they will assist in getting these re-sent ballots back on time, maybe we can do some really handy damage control on this one....

Florida DU'ers pitch in and give me a hand on this one....I'm contacting my county today.

Lots of these students are outside their county but are in State Schools here....if we can make it easy to get those ballots back, maybe it will do some good!!!

Remember Florida is a BIG state, it's almost 12 hours driving time from the Panhandle to Miami!!!

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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-04 04:20 PM
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1. BIG QUESTION!!!!
Edited on Thu Oct-28-04 04:21 PM by xray s
Do absentee ballots have to be postmarked by November 2 to be counted, or received by November 2 to be counted?

I don't see how new ballots mailed today to voters will get to them in time to be returned by November 2...
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stubertmcfly Donating Member (285 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-04 04:23 PM
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2. it is my understanding...
...that ballots need to be in to the elections office before polls close on the 2nd. being postmarked by the 2nd does not suffice.
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xray s Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-04 04:39 PM
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5. that's how it is in Illinois
I am curious about FL, because I remember a big fight over military ballots in 2000 being counted that arrived after election day, but were post marked by election day.

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MoonRiver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-04 04:23 PM
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3. In 2000 I remember it being the postmark date.
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deminflorida Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-28-04 04:26 PM
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4. That's just IT!!!
They are using overnight mail to cover their asses...but you know how College Students party on the weekend......

We have to get this word of assistance out!!!

I'm emailing now trying to get clarification on when the ballots have to be post-marked.

Word needs to be sent as well for college students who have'nt received ballots to get in touch with local Kerry/Edwards offices...

Everyone start making some noise on this one.....
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