National Review: These Might Just Be Pat’s Votes In Palm Beach

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11/09/00 12:50 p.m.
These Might Just Be Pat’s Votes
Buchananites have a solid track record in Palm Beach County.

By NR Staff


n March 12, 1996, Pat Buchanan won 8,788 votes in the Republican primary from the four congressional districts that share Palm Beach County. In Rep. Wexler's 19th congressional district, Buchanan won his largest vote of the four — 2,961.

Buchanan's top strategist in the 1996 nomination race, Human Events editor Terry Jeffrey, explains that by the time of the 1996 Florida primary, the fight was essentially over. Buchanan had lost South Carolina on March 2, and five other primaries, including Georgia's on March 5. Still, with the nomination lost, and Buchanan not campaigning in Palm Beach (he made only a brief appearance in Miami on March 6), over 8,000 diehard Buchanan Brigaders voted in support of his message.

Jeffrey says that it is "completely believable to me" that there were 3,000 Buchanan supporters again voting for their man in the Palm Beach area this Tuesday. "Over 8,000 people cast a symbolic vote for Pat and his message after he was eliminated from competition in 1996."




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This article will probably not make you too happy...
http://cache.voter.com/home/news/article/0,1175,2-15533-,00.html

Buchanan Says Disputed Florida Votes Are Gore's
November 09, 2000


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan said on Thursday he believed most of the 3,407 votes he got in a Florida county belonged to Vice President Al Gore and that people had voted for him by mistake.

"I don't want any votes that I did not receive and I don't want to win any votes by mistake,'' Buchanan told NBC's "Today'' show. "It seems to me that these 3,000 votes people are talking about -- most of those are probably not my vote and that may be enough to give the margin to Mr. Gore,'' he said.

The entire electoral race between Gore and Republican George W. Bush depends on a recount of votes in Florida, where claims of voter irregularity have emerged in Palm Beach County.

Bush is currently ahead by little more than 900 votes in the recount that will decide who wins the White House, according to the Miami Herald.

In addition to the more than 3,000 votes he won, Buchanan also disputed about 19,000 ballot papers in Florida that were nullified because people voted both for both Buchanan and Gore due to the layout of the ballot paper.

"I don't want to take any votes that don't belong to me,'' Buchanan said, adding that he had not campaigned in Palm Beach and that the majority of those votes probably belonged to Gore.


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nralife, I heard the same thing on FoxNews this morning about Buchanan getting a much higher vote count back in '96.

It's not Buchanan's decision to reject his votes.
 
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