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http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/decision2000/lat_absent001128.htm
SANFORD, Fla.--The supervisor of elections in Seminole County has conceded that she allowed two Republican Party operatives to correct 4,700 Republican absentee ballot applications so they would not be thrown out, court documents revealed Monday.
A 132-page deposition taken of Elections Supervisor Sandra Goard paints a picture of an informal small-town voting operation with few security checks or paper trails--though the office, near Orlando, Fla., could play a key role in deciding the outcome of the presidential election.
Seminole County Ballot Form
In the deposition, Goard, an elected Republican who has held office since 1983, acknowledged that two representatives of the state Republican Party used a back room in her office for 10 days to correct the ballot applications.
Goard conceded that no one ever was allowed to correct applications in the past, and that her staff assisted the GOP representatives by sorting Republican applications from Democratic applications--something else that never had been done before.
According to the documents, Goard said her office didn't check the identification of one of the two men, and she told attorneys that she still has no idea who he is. The men were not supervised while they worked, she said.
"It's like putting two people in a bank vault, unsupervised, and saying: 'Don't touch anything,' " said Harry Jacobs, an Orlando-area attorney and a Democrat who has filed a lawsuit against Goard and other Republicans. "It's a very cozy relationship they had with the Republican Party."
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SANFORD, Fla.--The supervisor of elections in Seminole County has conceded that she allowed two Republican Party operatives to correct 4,700 Republican absentee ballot applications so they would not be thrown out, court documents revealed Monday.
A 132-page deposition taken of Elections Supervisor Sandra Goard paints a picture of an informal small-town voting operation with few security checks or paper trails--though the office, near Orlando, Fla., could play a key role in deciding the outcome of the presidential election.
Seminole County Ballot Form
In the deposition, Goard, an elected Republican who has held office since 1983, acknowledged that two representatives of the state Republican Party used a back room in her office for 10 days to correct the ballot applications.
Goard conceded that no one ever was allowed to correct applications in the past, and that her staff assisted the GOP representatives by sorting Republican applications from Democratic applications--something else that never had been done before.
According to the documents, Goard said her office didn't check the identification of one of the two men, and she told attorneys that she still has no idea who he is. The men were not supervised while they worked, she said.
"It's like putting two people in a bank vault, unsupervised, and saying: 'Don't touch anything,' " said Harry Jacobs, an Orlando-area attorney and a Democrat who has filed a lawsuit against Goard and other Republicans. "It's a very cozy relationship they had with the Republican Party."
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