Lawyer urges snowbirds to cast their votes in Florida

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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/news/epaper/2004/09/19/m1a_snowbirdvotes_0919.html



Lawyer urges snowbirds to cast their votes in Florida
By Mary McLachlin

Palm Beach Post Staff Writer

Sunday, September 19, 2004

BOCA RATON— In the muddled aftermath of Election 2000, Lawrence Caplan lost a legal fight and learned an important political lesson at the hands of none other than Vice President Dick Cheney:

You can live in one state and vote in another.

Caplan, a tax and corporate lawyer, has turned that lesson into Operation: Snowbird, an Internet tool designed to make a difference in the election of 2004 — if Democratic voters in New York and New Jersey respond to it.

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POPULAR PAGES All they have to do, according to Caplan's Web site, www.operationsnowbird.com, is switch their registrations to Florida, where their votes are more likely to be needed by the Kerry-Edwards ticket than in the deep "blue" states up north. (The last day to register for the Nov. 2 election is Oct. 4.)

New York went for Gore-Lieberman by more than 1.7 million votes, while the official margin for Bush-Cheney in Florida was 537. If only 600 of the 2.2 million votes cast for the Democratic ticket in New York had been cast in Florida, according to the Snowbird site, the state's electoral votes and the presidency would have gone to Al Gore.

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[Cha]

1. Someone from New York City was in our

co-op Saturday and said this very thing to me when she was in line and saw my Kerry/Edwards pin..I kinda of knew her but figured she was a repug because her family owned a big business in our town.

I couldn't have been more happily Wrong!

It was so rushed that I wasn't quite sure what she was talking about..cause there were lot of people in the store.

But, here it is in an article from the palmbeachpost.

I just hope they don't figure out a way to cancel those votes in swing states!

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