Message-ID: <13380674.1075854586401.JavaMail.evans@thyme> Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 03:40:00 -0800 (PST) From: info@electionintegrity2000.com To: ebass@enron.com Subject: Judge Lewis has just rejected a court petition by Gore Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-From: "Election Integrity 2000" X-To: ebass@enron.com X-cc: X-bcc: X-Folder: \Eric_Bass_Dec2000\Notes Folders\All documents X-Origin: Bass-E X-FileName: ebass.nsf Breaking news: Leon County circuit Judge Terry Lewis has just rejected a court petition by Vice President Al Gore to force Florida to accept hand recounted votes. This ruling clears the way for the Florida Division of Elections to certify the final vote tally tomorrow. That's great news -- but the post-election battle is not over yet. "Hand counting" of ballots is still going on at this very minute in Palm Beach and Broward counties. If the ruling by Judge Lewis stands, Florida's Division of Elections can throw out these "hand counts." But the Gore legal team is appealing the decision today and it's very likely that the Florida Supreme Court will be hearing the case shortly. The Florida Supreme Court is comprised of six Democrats and 1 independent, and they've already ruled in Gore's favor to allow the "hand counting" of ballots earlier this week. Yes, this situation is still a mess. That's why it's still important for us to be mobilizing in favor of fair election practices and integrity in the ballot counting process. The votes were counted on election day -- and George W. Bush won Florida. The votes were recounted in the days that followed -- and George W. Bush won Florida. Now the Democrats have hand picked a couple of counties where they think they can manufacture enough votes to make up the difference through "hand counting" of ballots. What's worse is they're using ballot examining techniques that amount to mind reading to determine whether or not voters meant to vote for Al Gore. Thank you for signing your Petition to block these objectionable "hand counts" and Certify the Bush Victory in Florida. Every day we pick up more supporters (we're closing in on 200,0000!) and every day we pick up more media recognition as we swamp Florida with your Petitions. Here's the bottom line: we are not going to let Al Gore steal this election. Send anyone and everyone who might be interested in fighting for the integrity of this election to http://www.electionintegrity2000.com to sign our petition and see breaking news on the action in Florida right now. Thanks, Jamie Hogan Editor Election Integrity 2000 ElectionIntegrity2000.com ============================================================ If you would no longer like to receive information from ElectionIntegrity2000.com, reply to this e-mail and place the work UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line. ============================================================