"Fla. County to Replace Absentee Ballots"

[GreenPartyVoter]

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) - 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.

As election workers and the U.S. Postal Service traded the blame Wednesday, Broward County elections supervisor Brenda Snipes moved to solve the problem with less than a week left before the presidential election by sending duplicates to people who had not returned the original ballot.

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.

"This isn't a blame game," Snipes told The Miami Herald. "What we're concentrating on is getting the ballots to the voter." She was named to the job by Gov. Jeb Bush after the 2000 elections supervisor quit during the bitter presidential vote recount and her replacement was suspended for bungling.

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20041028/D860ERGO2.html

[peekaloo]

1. Well I hope these people know to hand deliver their completed

ballots since time is now tight.

Another fine job by a Bu$h appointee.

[still_one]

2. What we should do is get the people who did NOT receive their ballots

to vote early. DO NOT WAIT FOR THE BALLOTS TO ARRIVE BY MAIL

From what I understand Florida allows for this