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(46,731 posts) Sat Oct 27, 2018, 01:46 PM Oct 2018

Reflecting back to the 2000 election: Re military mail-in ballots.

Who remembers that? It was like the concept that absentee mail-in ballots began that year. Maybe it did. What I remember living in Florida was the uproar that servicemen would not have enough time to mail in their ballots and so they extended the deadline. We keep remembering the 537 votes that separated Bush from Gore. But nobody mentions the thousands of extra votes he must have received when we extended the deadline for our military men and women, and, unless someone can give me a better explanation, it seemed like this was a gimme.

I know that something must have changed because my mail-in ballot in the primary was post dated the date of the election this year, but it wasn't counted. Not that I'm complaining. Just that it seems that something changed from 2000 to 2018.

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Reflecting back to the 2000 election: Re military mail-in ballots. (Original Post) Baitball Blogger Oct 2018 OP

I remember melman Oct 2018 #1

Jesus. I forgot about that. Baitball Blogger Oct 2018 #2

Just came across this. I remember that issue vividly. Kathryn Hughes... George II Oct 2018 #3

melman

(7,681 posts)

1. I remember

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 02:00 PM

Oct 2018

I'll never forget Joe Lieberman going on Meet the Press and totally folding on that issue. Just basically conceding it to the Republicans on national TV. Unbelievable. That was a key moment and a disastrous one.

Baitball Blogger

(46,731 posts)

2. Jesus. I forgot about that.

Reply to melman (Reply #1)

Sat Oct 27, 2018, 02:02 PM

Oct 2018

It means that Bush was thousands of votes behind.

Lieberman must have been a mole in the Democratic party.

George II

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3. Just came across this. I remember that issue vividly. Kathryn Hughes...

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Wed Oct 31, 2018, 07:49 PM

Oct 2018

...one of bush's hatchet people (I indelicately called her hair lip (sorry folks) because she had a thicker mustache than I do!) claiming that the Gore campaign was trying to get ALL absentee ballots thrown out (military and others), which was a blatant and total lie.

The implication was that they were mostly military voters, who they claimed were republican voters. The Gore campaign just wanted to make sure they were all verified. But it turned out that in Florida most of the absentee ballots came from Israel, where ex-patriated Jewish voters went to live, and they wound up overwhelmingly for Gore. But it made for short term good PR for the republicans.

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