Dan Frisa
Thursday, Dec. 7, 2000

Shouldn't these cases have been assigned to the same judge, to be heard at the same time?

The spectre of Judges Lewis & Clark exploring possible outcomes together raises suspicions at the worst possible time, given growing public concern and confusion after a month of lawyers arguing legal minutiae while Americans wait impatiently, daunted and dazed.

The cases have strikingly similar fact patterns and are both widely viewed as political lawsuits designed by the Gore campaign to assist in its effort to 'take' the election, after the fact.

In Seminole County, Democrat activist and major Gore fund-raiser Harry Jacobs brought this action, with the express approval and support of the Gore campaign, to have all of the county’s 15,000 absentee ballots disqualified, though there is supposedly no "official" Gore involvement.

The suit alleges that absentee ballot applications were amended by Republicans who added voter identification numbers to the forms, which had been otherwise fully completed by voters.

The actual ballots were then mailed directly to these fewer than 2,000 voters in response to their requests, per normal procedures.

In Martin County the facts are largely the same, with a Democrat Gore supporter attempting to disqualify some 10,000 absentee ballots.

Note that what occurred was merely an act of assisting voters in their effort to receive an absentee ballot.

These Gore plaintiffs have made no allegation of any fraud, tampering, or other improper treatment of the actual absentee ballots.

Here we have Gore – who has so righteously preached that "in order for every vote to count, we must count every vote" – condoning the massive disenfranchisement of 25,000 Floridians.

So how can he now seek to throw out 25,000 legitimate, properly cast votes?

Because they were largely votes for Bush, that’s how!

Sound familiar?

Well, it is – and for good reason:

It is precisely the same Gore tactic that was aggressively employed to throw out 1,000 military absentee ballots for the sole reason that they were presumed to be likely Bush voters.

In fact, Mark Herron – the Gore lawyer paid by the Democrat National Committee to write the infamous five-page memo used to disqualify the military ballots – also provided legal advice in the Seminole County case.

So Al Gore is actually in favor of taking votes away from tens of thousands of voters just so he can pervert the electoral system enough to literally steal the election!

Again, this should be no surprise – we’ve come to expect nothing more of Junior Gore.

What is most distressing, however, is the prospect of two Democrat judges in Florida "conferring" with each other, while they are each deciding virtually identical Gore political lawsuits!

Why would they feel the need to do so?

So they wind up on the same page when their opinions are released?

Even if nothing untoward is afoot, such highly unusual conduct does nothing to engender confidence in the judiciary, at a time when we need it most.

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Dan Frisa represented New York in the United States Congress and served four terms in the New York State Assembly.

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