Oh, dear. Katherine and Theresa are splitsville.

Don't leave elections to politicians

By Randy Schultz
Palm Beach Post Editorial Page Editor
Sunday, June 11, 2006

Oh, dear. Katherine and Theresa are splitsville. But you knew it couldn't last.

:rofl:

Three days after President Bush's first inauguration, the two women who helped him win Florida and thus the White House praised each other at an elections meeting in Orlando. Katherine Harris and Theresa LePore agreed that both had done their jobs splendidly.

Now, though, U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris is running for the Senate. Last week, at the Forum Club of the Palm Beaches, Rep. Harris said that while she had "obeyed the law," Ms. LePore had failed to get Palm Beach County's election results to Tallahassee by 5 p.m. the Sunday after Thanksgiving 2000 to meet a Florida Supreme Court recount deadline. Ms. LePore disagreed, accusing Rep. Harris of "selective memory." Actually, they're both mostly wrong, as they were in Orlando.

During testimony before a civil rights commission investigating the election, Rep. Harris showed that she hadn't understood the law she claims to have followed. Also, the court allowed her to accept results Monday morning. She set her own earlier deadline of Sunday.

As for Ms. LePore, the famous non-delegator decided that sending results by 7 p.m. would be acceptable, but she didn't send complete results after that painstaking hand-counting. The state couldn't figure out the jumbled database that the county sent. Forgetting that is Ms. LePore's own "selective memory."

Relive 2000? It happens every day

Only reluctantly, Ms. LePore said, did she attend Rep. Harris' Forum Club drop-by, for fear of having to relive the 2000 election. Again, Ms. LePore displays her sense of unreality. That election changed history. The other reason to relive it is that Florida still hasn't done enough to make the system credible and make every vote count.


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Theresa LePore protection during and after the recount. He had dinner with her once. He said she's actually a pretty nice well-meaning woman who didn't intend for any of this to happen. (Doesn't excuse it, of course.)

I've got some friends who have been poll workers for years and they say she is one of the most incompetent people they have ever met.

LaPore saw that design and decided it "didn't look right" like that.

Aligned bottom on pg. 2 would have meant no hole overlapping between pages 1 & 2.

Result = Gore president.