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shield772 · Oct 14, 2006, 01:05 am

Fla. Dems attack election day notices - Yahoo! News

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. - Florida Democrats asked a state court Friday to block Election Day notices at polling places that would inform voters in Rep. Mark Foley (news, bio, voting record)'s district that his GOP replacement on the ballot will receive his votes.
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Foley had been a shoo-in for re-election before he resigned from Congress on Sept. 29 after being confronted with sexually explicit instant messages he wrote to male Congressional pages.

Foley's name is still on the ballot, though, and election supervisors want voters to know that votes for Foley will be given to state Rep. Joe Negron instead.

JohnMK · Oct 14, 2006, 02:15 am

That's just sick. What the hell are they thinking?

underbear1 · Oct 14, 2006, 03:17 am

I don't see what mechanism would prevent Foley from claiming his name's on the ballot, and if some miracle would happen and he'd win, what stops him from returning to Congress?

Oct 14, 2006, 02:15 am	#2 (permalink) (top)
JohnMK Laissez-Faire Location: Seattle Posts: 539	That's just sick. What the hell are they thinking?

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underbear1 BANNED Posts: 2,630	I don't see what mechanism would prevent Foley from claiming his name's on the ballot, and if some miracle would happen and he'd win, what stops him from returning to Congress?