Fla. State Elections Office Evacuated

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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - A suspicious package was reported Monday in the building that houses Florida's Division of Elections, and employees were kept out while the building was searched.

Many employees of the division are housed in other buildings and the evacuation wouldn't affect Tuesday's election, said Alia Faraj, a spokeswoman for the Department of State, which oversees the elections agency in the state that was ground zero for the disputed 2000 race.

Firefighters and police were called to the building at about 6:30 a.m. when a security guard in the building reported the package, said police spokesman John Newland.

A police hazardous device team was still in the building at midmorning and there was no word on whether anything had been found, he said.

Newland said there weren't many employees in the building at the time of the call and people arriving for work were not admitted. They remained out of the building while investigators were inside.
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[bushisanidiot]

1. Voter supression = Repuke operatives

i hope everyone has their video and digital cameras ready to go to capture all the dirty work those idiots are going to try to pull at the polls.

[ezekiel333]

4. Florida Freelance Journalist Arrested After Photographing Voting Lines

<http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=949556&mesg_id=949556>

It's on.

See ya in the streets.

[yellowcanine]

2. So it begins. Expect more of this tomorrow. The thugs are pulling out

all stops to suppress the vote.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

3. Probably a box full of dogsh**.

[seasat]

5. I wouldn't be suprised if they called in the "plumbers".

during the time everyone was out of the building. I hope someone checks the computers and makes sure noone used it as an opportunity to hack the vote in favor of Shrub.

[Francine Frensky]

6. "While the building was empty, Rove entered and reprogramed the computers

so that every other vote for Kerry would register for Bush"

this was no accident folks.

[grannybgood]

7. unfortunately this is probably true.

[Tab]

8. Not the first time

It could be some loonie mailing in a package to get his rocks off, but it sure seems that there's often a need to evacuate some Democrats office just before some election... there's usually someone at every election; they ought to set up camera systems so they can watch what's going on in their offices in case they're evacuated.

[Pale_Rider]

9. That would be my guess ...

... and if they are using the Diebold GEMS system there should be an audit log of new code being downloaded to the terminals. Unless they went in afterwards and did a simple record delete.

[Demeter]

10. 57, 000 Missing Absentee Ballots from Broward County, Anyone?

[Dover]

11. Why do I get the feeling this story will emerge later as being important?

Sounds like an opportunity for 'fixing' something.

[NVMojo]

12. yep, I smell something worse than dogcrap

[flobee1kenobi]

14. thinking the same thing Demeter

HMMMMMMMM these ballots were supposed to be lost!
QUICK call the bomb squad and have them blown up!

[libertad]

13. That's exactly what I thought when I heard the story this morning.

[goforit]

15. More monkey business?.....Who would of thunk it in Jeb country.