Florida: GOP Ponders Suit Over Ballot in Foley’s District

[kpete]

Florida: GOP Ponders Suit Over Ballot in Foley’s District

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October 10, 2006

The Florida Republican Party is exploring legal options to force county elections officials in the 16th Congressional district to display notices informing voters that state Rep. Joe Negron (R) will receive any votes cast for scandal-ridden ex-Rep. Mark Foley (R), whose name remains on the Nov. 7 ballot despite resigning his post a week and a half ago amid the furor over his sexually explicit messages to underage House pages.

The Florida Division of Elections last week issued a suggestion to the eight elections supervisors in the district to post notices in polling booths and in the envelopes with absentee ballots about Foley’s replacement as well as the state law that allows votes to be counted for another party-designated candidate if the original candidate drops out of the race after it is too late to reprint ballots.

more at:
http://www.rollcall.com/issues/52_37/atr/15389-1.html

[SaveAmerica]

1. Oh, that'll work, they're asking Florida Republicans to give their

vote to someone with NEGRO in his name. :thumbsup: Does anyone have any bacon to go with all this scrambling the Republican party is doing?

[SoFlaJet]

2. The same people

that criticized Dems for going to the courts in 2000 are now going to try and do the same thing-what frickin hypocrites this party has.