bush missed the filing deadline for the Florida ballot [View All]

[welshTerrier2]

is this true ???

check this out from the Green's website (http://www.gpus.org/press/pr_09_13_04b.html):


Green Party members across the U.S. are supporting the demand from Florida Greens that President George W. Bush be removed from the Florida ballot, in accord with Florida election law.

Florida Republicans missed the September 1 filing deadline to place Mr. Bush on the state ballot, but Florida Democrats are refusing to hold them to state election rules.

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Florida Democratic Party chair Scott Maddox defended his party's refusal to make an issue of Republicans' failure to meet the deadline for presidential candidates: "To keep an incumbent president off the ballot in a swing state the size of Florida because of a technicality, I just don't think would be right." (St. Petersburg Times, September 11, 2004)

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Greens said that the free pass given by Florida Democrats to Mr. Bush recalls Al Gore's refusal to demand a recount in every county during the 2000 Florida election debacle and the failure of Florida Democrats to challenge Republican election officials' disqualification of thousands of Florida voters, especially African Americans.