1.   Along with Choicepoint, the lawsuit named Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris and Florida elections director Clay Roberts, as well as several county election supervisors.

2.   And like the county election officials in Florida, Democratic leaders routinely leave urban blacks at the mercy of old, dysfunctional political machines.

3.   And they have frequently noted that county election supervisors have the primary responsibility for ensuring that voting is done correctly and for selecting and purchasing voting equipment.

4.   A DPP member who won a county election in the area last week proposed the poll during his campaign.

5.   All the voters have to do, in theory, is complete the forms and send them in to their county elections office.

6.   All of those signatures must be verified by county election supervisors.

7.   Bush has until late next week to contact county election officials.

8.   But Baker said that such a determination by county election workers would be so subjective as to be meaningless.

9.   ChoicePoint also says that DBT recommended to the state that county elections supervisors undergo training to help them work with the felons database.

10.   County election offices throughout Florida were deluged by absentee ballots this year because both parties waged huge campaigns to get out the vote.