NBC on Florida: 1.6 Million Absentee Ballots NOT Counted Yet

[writes2000]

That is a HUGE, HUGE amount of unknown votes.

[MrScorpio]

1. Bingo

I'm feeling good about that

[writes2000]

3. The Democrats Better...

Be all over that. Because if Kerry pulls within 100,000 votes or less, I think he can make up the difference very, very easily.

[deadparrot]

2. When exactly are they going to tablulate them?

[derbstyron]

9. According to our Secretary of State not until Thursday

Come on now, you've got to give her and asshole Jeb time to shred some of them. God how I HATE these Nazi fuckers :(

[yankeedem]

4. Palm Beach County 72% counted..

http://www.pbcelections.org/ElectionResults/2004/General/Gen04_dtl.htm

REP - George W. Bush 125,922 37.92%
DEM - John F. Kerry 203,988 61.43%
CPF - Michael A. Peroutka 411 0.12%
LIB - Michael Badnarik 415 0.12%
GRE - David Cobb 169 0.05%
SWP - James Harris 120 0.04%
SPF - Walter F. Brown 77 0.02%
REF - Ralph Nader 946 0.28%

Is it true that early votes are not reflected?

[mconvente]

5. what did the courts rule>?

that you have to receive them by today or within a week?

and where are these ballots from? dem leaning counties?

[SayitAintSo]

6. Whew ..... fingers crossed...

It aint over yet ... we may not know tonight. But you can't ignore the turnout, the buzz, the Kerry crowds - that wasn't our imagination. The pundits were even calling it...

[writes2000]

7. Tom Brokaw Said It....

There were that many absentee ballots NOT counted yet.

[lebkuchen]

18. I still don't buy the huge Bush lead in FL even w/o the absentees

That's ludicrous considering that Gore had won the state (sans the stop of the recount).

[msanthrope]

8. These are the EARLY VOTES!!!!!

They will be added on after all the rest---BET ON IT.

[Hamlette]

11. these are NOT the early votes, they are the absentee votes

and they favor Bush. Not to make this a downer but in 2000 the absentee ballots put Bush over the top in FL. because of the military.

Wish I could remember what the exact count was. It was pretty lopsided (absentee ballots.)

The early votes have been counted and are in the totals now.

Bush leads by 200,000.

[msanthrope]

16. BULLSHIT---there are no 1.6 million absentee votes in

Florida, you liar!!!
If there were, and they swung for BUSH, don't you think the Bushes would have been counting them BY NOW and trumpeting them?

These are the EARLY VOTES, some of which are by absentee.

[senseandsensibility]

10. Absolutootly!!

Jeb Bush, COUNT THOSE VOTES!!!

[msanthrope]

12. Bump this people,and know that the early vote is not

reported yet.

Gird yourselves.....

[senseandsensibility]

13. kick!

n/t

[gordianot]

14. Sounds like the same old * excrement.

Unspeakable

[Lori Price CLG]

15. Right, but the litigation-hating GOP needs to litigate them...

the Dem ballots, that is.

Lori Price
http://www.legitgov.org/

[RadiDem]

17. we WILL win FL !

!

[Robert Oak]

19. who can verify if the early votes have been counted or not

[madfloridian]

20. I just called a Democratic official....he told me that.

He said that absentee and early voting had not yet figured in. Can I prove it is right? No, I don't have it in writing. I do know the figure of 1.8 million was quoted a lot lately as early voting and absentee......and said to be about a third of registered voters in Florida.

He asked someone else and they agreed. We could all be wrong, though, couldn't we.