THE FRINGE SPEAKS OUT

FIRST-PERSON REPORTS
The disenfranchised speak

If you or someone you know was prevented from voting on 11-07-01,
or had to overcome unusual obstacles in order to exercise your constitutional right to vote,
please send me your story. Any documentation you can also provide is extremely helpful.

Also, be sure to check out Gore Victory Resources for more information on the disenfranchised

Click here to read about how Jim Mooney (page 2) was almost kept from voting, and how he has now discovered that he's dead. (No, this isn't a joke).

Late voter registration card in Tennessee
"I live in Knoxville, TN., which is in Knox county TN. I had registered to vote for the 2000 election in Sept. 2000. I never heard anything from the election board until the day after the election, on Nov. 8th 2000 I received my voter registration card in the mail. So I was not permitted to vote in the 2000 election. It seemed to be suspicious that it happened this way. I think Tennessee should also have been investigated. I hear their were a lot of irregularities taken place in this state also. If so that would explain why Gore lost in Tennessee."
-- Jackie Swick

MILITARY PERSONNEL WERE GIVEN LEEWAY ON DEADLINES, WHILE REGULAR CITIZENS WHO MET DEADLINES WERE KEPT FROM VOTING

I moved to Florida after being hired at WinDough.com (still there) from Pennsylvania. I sent my registration card in one or two days before the postmark deadline (thirty days before the election). It was in the mail, on a mail day, and was taken.

Well, I got a notice a week or so before the election that it was not postmarked in time. I complained, but it fell on deaf ears. The election started "happening", and before the polls were closed, I called a news station about my situation. Another answering machine.

I am a white male, so I couldn't scream about race. A couple of weeks later, I got my registration card, dated a day or two after the election.

The DNC Voter Rights Institute (Committee?) has my story filed, and I was invited to a hearing in Miami (I was invited at 9AM the day of the hearing on a workday...the hearing was at noon 40 miles away from work).

I have just recently seen it mentioned in news stories that other registrations were withheld, and allegations about it being intentional. This has convinced me that "something was afoot".

From a Washington Post article, June 1st, 2001:

At the time of the election, Florida law was explicit: To count, a ballot must be dated and postmarked by Election Day. It must be witnessed by another person, and the voter must have formally requested the ballot.

Some counties, including Miami-Dade and Hillsborough, followed the law to the letter, while others tallied ballots that lacked postmarks or failed to meet other requirements. This was particularly true in north Florida, home to several large military bases, where officials responded to GOP arguments that military ballots often aren't postmarked, mailed or delivered on time.

At least 17 ballots examined by The Post in four north Florida counties were counted despite bearing postmarks dated after Nov. 7. Scores more were counted after arriving without postmarks in elections offices between Nov. 8 and Nov. 17, the deadline for overseas absentee ballots to be received. Election watchers note there is no way to know when ballots without postmarks were completed.

Military people are allowed to send stuff late (one person in the military said they sent theirs in many days late, and a lookup of the records show (IN LEON COUNTY) that the vote was recorded. I sent mine well in time for the deadline, yet either because they didn't get to it, or the post office was slow, or some other reason, I was disqualified! I had the intention to vote, in Broward County, for Al Gore...

Herb Riede
Broward County, Florida
Fringefolk, page 23

See Herb Riede's voting registration card, and the letter from the DNC

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