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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...STATE INITIATIVES...
...much attention was three years ago, when the race for Miami mayor was stolen with forged and phony absentee ballots. One belonged to a dead guy named Manuel Yip, who, it turned out, had been voting regularly from the afterlife. Further investigation revealed some 17,000 deceased persons on state voting rolls. (Note to Tim Russert: of the two presidential contenders, Bush stands to gain the most from a high Florida turnout of dead and fictitious voters, as they tend to be Republican...
...Sunshine State is a paradise of scandals, teeming with grifters, deadbeats and misfits drawn here by some dark primordial calling, like demented trout. You would be surprised how many seek and attain public office...
That isn't to say there's no election chicanery in our fair state. The odds of honesty prevailing in all 67 counties are slim, especially with the stakes so high. While TV news crews from around the world are encamped at the Breakers in Palm Beach, who's watching little Okaloosa County in the Panhandle? Not to worry, though: Cuba's Foreign Minister has offered to send observers to ensure a fair counting of the ballots. And you know they would be impartial, because the Foreign Minister declared of Bush and Gore that...
...morning. The man who said the presidential election wasn't a popularity contest had won the popularity contest. He collected more votes than Bill Clinton ever did, more votes than any other Democrat in history. But like his father before him, he couldn't hold on to his home state, and that could cost him the race. The most fervent environmentalist in national politics was foiled by the Green Party; the guy who as a young Congressman made his name investigating tainted baby formula and influence peddling by the contact-lens industry lost because of a few thousand votes...