An estimated 4,900 votes would be lost for Gore, according to his team. That means as many as 10,000 votes would be lost for Bush. Absentee ballots in Martin County, another largely Republican area in Florida, may also be in jeopardy. The local Stuart News reported today that a Republican official there took several hundred incomplete ballot applications out of the county supervisor's office to complete and then return them. State Democratic Party officials said today they were thinking about possible legal action on that matter as well.
Republicans call the Seminole County suit frivolous.
They note that no ballots were ever touched and claim the people who voted using absentee ballots did so legally and shouldn't be disenfranchised because a few party operatives tried to help. Gore, who is not a party to the suit, today took issue with the idea that the suit is over a technicality. But the remedy sought by the plaintiffs seems to put Democrats in an awkward position, since Gore repeatedly has said he is challenging Florida's certified election results in the interest of letting every legally cast vote be counted. E-MAIL THIS PAGE Send this story to a friend. ABC News Internet Ventures.