Teresa LePore up for re-election Tuesday -- Dean, Lieberman campaign

[DeepModem Mom]

Anybody in the area know if her opponent has a chance?

New York Times:

....Everyone in Palm Beach County wants redemption: the Democrats, many of whom remain haunted by the knowledge that they voted for the wrong candidate back then; the Republicans, tired of accusations that they stole the election; and Ms. LePore, who wants to escape her Madam Butterfly label and accusations that she caused everything from President Bush's victory in 2000 to the 2001 terrorist attacks and the war in Iraq.

She is up for re-election herself on Tuesday and is facing competition, for the first time since she won the office in 1996, from an opponent who paints her as incompetent. On the eve of the primary, which includes local candidates and nominees to replace a retiring senator, Bob Graham, Ms. LePore is again facing accusations of bad ballot design, this time with the county's absentee ballot. It asks voters to connect an arrow to their preferred candidate's name instead of filling in a bubble beside it. Ms. LePore said she chose the arrow design, which is used elsewhere in Florida and nationally, because studies suggested it was easier for voters to understand.

Ms. LePore's opponent, Arthur Anderson, an education professor and former county school board member, has sharply criticized the ballot design and the fact that Ms. LePore's office mailed about 25,000 absentee ballots with old instructions (they asked for a witness's signature, which state law no longer requires). Though virtually unknown, Mr. Anderson is getting high-profile help: former Gov. Howard Dean of Vermont campaigned with him on Monday, and Senator Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, a popular figure in South Florida, is to campaign with him on Sunday....

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/28/politics/campaign/28votersx.html

[Jim Sagle]

1. Omigod! Jagoff Joe is on our side for change. Wha' hoppen?

[jmowreader]

3. I'll tell you exactly what happened

Teresa LePore is the person most responsible for Joe not being vice president today. Not Kathleen Harris, not Jeb and not Shrub.

If that damned ballot would have been properly designed, George W. Bush would be sitting in Texas today, cutting brush, counting his money with a scale, and running oil companies into the ground because if all those sweet little old Jewish ladies wouldn't have voted for Pat Buchanan there wouldn't have been a need for a recount.

So since Teresa ruined Joe's life, Joe's gonna return the favor.

[DeepModem Mom]

4. Bingo! You are right!

[flordehinojos]

2. i so hope LePore gets her arrogant derriere kicked out on Tuesday!

[scarletlib]

5. I'm in Palm Beach County and haven't heard anything

about her chances for reelection.

However, I am not voting for her. I don't think she can be trusted and I don't think she learns from her mistakes.

PS I am now a clerk in one of a precinct. I can't do much about the electronic voting machines but I can make sure that everyone entitled to cast a vote will do so. I will not tolerate any shenanigans in my precinct. At the clerk training there is now many more young people than before. Many are democrats and feel the same way I do.

As a side note, all of the republicans scheduled to work as poll workers in my precinct dropped out.

[DeepModem Mom]

8. Thanks so much, scarletlib, for an inside report! Keep up the good work!

[LiberalFighter]

9. Dropped out?? Why?

I wish they would educate the public that LePore becomes a Democrat or Republican depending on which way the wind blows.

[scarletlib]

11. They each had individual reasons but

this also happened in the Democratic Primary in March 2004. My onw personal opinion is that it's not a conspiracy but that they are disheartened as repugs.

[Octafish]

6. Theresa LePore tied to Adnan KHASHOGGI

The "Democrat" LePore once was a stewardess for Iran-Contra / BCCI action figure and all-around BFEE turd Adnan Khashoggi.

Small world, huh?

"Six Degrees of Adnan Khashoggi," Part 3

http://slate.msn.com/id/1007950/

Did Adnan Khashoggi Throw the Election to Dubya?

http://slate.msn.com/id/1006609/

The official Terry LePore ballot designer fan page

http://www.geocities.com/francis_uy/palmbeachvote.html

[susu369]

7. Thanks, Octafish

that connection has to be kept in the forefront....

[Trajan]

10. Indeed, LePore is a bona fide BFEE operative from the old days ...

She is not to be trusted with election balloting in ANY way ....

I'm shocked she is still there ....