Runner up in Orlando mayor's race wants results thrown out

[DoYouEverWonder]

Mar 15, 2005

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- The runner-up in last year's Orlando mayoral race asked a judge Tuesday to throw out those results and order a new election because suspended Mayor Buddy Dyer allegedly paid a campaign consultant to illegally collect absentee ballots.

Frederic O'Neal, an attorney for runner-up Ken Mulvaney, said the more than 4,000 absentee ballots cast in the election should be thrown out since the process was flawed by the 364 absentee ballots collected by campaign consultant Ezzie Thomas.

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But attorneys for Dyer and the county canvassing board argued that there was no wrongdoing that would require a vote to be thrown out, and that there were no restrictions against a third party mailing an absentee ballot for someone else, such as what Thomas did.

Even if the 364 absentee ballots gathered by Thomas were thrown out, Dyer would still have won the election, said Darryl Bloodworth, an attorney for Dyer, who won by almost 5,000 votes but cleared the bar for avoiding a runoff by 234.

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[cascadiance]

1. Well maybe we should let Donna Frye "throw the results out" too

here in San Diego if it is found that Murphy is guilty of crimes with the city's pension scandal. If they let this go through in Orlando, we should use that to lobby San Diego to throw out that election too. Same sort of thing now isn't it? And she got more votes than Murphy did too.

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Yep, I hope the Repugs

crap and double standards back fire on them big time. However, I won't hold my breath.