From: Harvey Newstrom (mail@HarveyNewstrom.com)
Date: Tue May 20 2003 - 16:21:40 MDT
Dehede011@aol.com
> Are you saying that in a heavily Democrat County
> every county nevertheless elected a county sheriff
> that was Republican?
No, not every county sheriff is a republican. That is why I said "sheriffs
and republicans." However, our governor is a republican and so was the
supervisor of elections. They set up many of the election procedures and
policing guidelines. The locals police forces did not refuse to follow
orders from Tallahassee.
> As to individual policemen acting this way
> because they are Republican those policemen
> have to answer to their Sergeants,
> Lieutenants, etc., and in addition are scrutinized
> by poll watchers & election judges half of which
are Democrats.
They did. There were quite a few arrests and lawsuits over various issues
all over the state. But all of this was after the fact, and did not restore
the votes to those illegally turned away.
> There were five to seven cases in court, not counting
> their Supreme Court, all in front of judges that were known
> to be Democrat. Yet the Republicans won every court case.
Here are five to seven counter-examples where Republicans lost their court
cases:
In the case of Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, the judge refused
to order the inclusion of undated unpostmarked ballots from overseas
military personnel as Bush had requested.
In the case of Gore vs. Harris, the Florida Supreme court overturned the
lower court. Gore won the right to reject the certified votes provided by
Katherine Harris and the right to resume the manual recount of the votes.
In the case of Bush v. Bay County Canvassing Board et al, the judge
expressed so much skepticism toward the Republican arguments that they
voluntarily withdrew the case.
In the case of Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris, the court
barred Harris from certifying the results and ruled that hand recounts had
to be performed under Florida election law.
In the case of Harris v. Circuit Judges of the 11th, 15th & 17th Judicial
Circuits of Florida, the judges refused the request to stop the manual
recounts. They also refused the request to consolidate all the election
lawsuits into a single suit.
In the case of Florida Democratic Party v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board, the
judge rejected the request to summarily discard ballots with so-called
dimpled chads.
-- Harvey Newstrom, CISSP, IAM, GSEC, IBMCP <www.HarveyNewstrom.com> <www.Newstaff.com>
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