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Subject: SNET: AP: Ballot designer, under fire, hires lawyer and hides out
Date: 12 Nov 2000 01:33:47 -0500
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Ballot designer, under fire, hires lawyer and hides out

By ALLEN G. BREED
ASSOCIATED PRESS
WEST PALM BEACH, FLA.

Theresa LePore might be the most reviled Democrat in the country.

LePore is the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections who
designed the ballot that some Democrats say was so confusing it
may have cost Al Gore the election.

More than 19,000 of the ballots were disqualified Tuesday, mostly
because people voted for two candidates in the presidential race.
Others say they mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan instead of
Gore.

Now, LePore has been hit with voter lawsuits.  A Democratic state
lawmaker said he plans to organize a petition drive to force her
from her elective office.  And demonstrators and others have
denounced her.

Robert Montgomery Jr., a lawyer who defended two former
Salvadoran generals cleared of responsibility in a Miami
courtroom last week for the 1980 murders of four American church
women, has been hired by LePore to represent her in the numerous
lawsuits.

LePore, 45, has said she sent the ballot to dozens of candidates
and others before the election and heard no complaints.  She said
she designed the ballot to make the print easier to read for
senior citizens -- one of the groups most incensed by the
election.

She has gone into semi-seclusion since the controversy erupted.

Given her history, friends said it is amazing that LePore should
be caught up in such a maelstrom.

The daughter of a West Palm Beach city commissioner, LePore is a
staunch Democrat.

She took an after-school job as a clerk in the county elections
office in 1971 at age 16, before she was even old enough to vote.
>From there, she advanced to secretary to the assistant elections
supervisor, then to supervisor in 1995.

``She has done nothing but work for that county,'' said Mary
Marsh, LePore's younger sister.  ``I think the only time that
she's not working is when she's sleeping.''

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