I see this as all beside the point.
The real story is that this and other items in the news show a thread of commonality:
Florida is again being set up as a flash point by the Democrats to contest the election. Assuming Bush doesn't blow it with another debate debacle so that they don't even need to bother. God help us.
For example, some groups who have held registration drives have turned in the voter registration forms which have not been fully filled out, when Florida law states that all required boxes must be completed. Those not filled out must by law be discarded.
When these were discovered, Secretary of State Glenda Hood warned that some who thought they had registered would be turned away at the polls. The warning brought lots of these activist groups out screaming; they went to a judge who said that the people should be contacted and given the opportunity to fill in all the info so they could then indeed vote.
Hood said that in one county (Duval) alone, the number was around 1,400. When workers tried calling the voters using the phone number they had filled in on the form, the numbers on many were not in service.
So now they show up on 11/2, get turned away, and we now have a group screaming about how a Republican Sec. of State took away their right to vote. CNN will love it. Rather will have an orgasm on screen.
As a Floridian, I nearly gagged, as did other old-time-raised-here people did, when Jimmy Carter, an absolute joke, said that Florida did not meet international voting standards and that they were racist and kept felons from voting.
WHAT THE HECK ARE INTERNATIONAL VOTING STANDARDS?
Fewer than 100,000 people are killed by soldiers while trying to vote?
Less than 2,000 ballot boxes go missing?
The felon law in Florida is very old. In fact it was an old law when Carter carried Florida in 1976, but I doubt seriously that Jimmy cared much about that law back then, do you?
