NewsMax.com
Friday, Feb. 9, 2001

According to the Associated Press:

One of the allegations contained in the inch-and-a-half-thick report is that the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit that caused a judge to keep polls open past the legal closing hour was either dead or never existed.

A St. Louis circuit judge ordered polls kept open for another three hours past the 7 p.m. poll closing time, but the Missouri Court of Appeals threw out that order about 40 minutes later, closing the polls.

A lawyer representing Democrats who filed the lawsuit requesting the extended voting period – including Gore-Lieberman campaign leaders and freshman Rep. William Lacy Clay – denied the reason was to encourage balloting by unregistered voters.

That was in response to a portion of the report that read:

"Hundreds of felons, non-residents and those not legally entitled to vote in the November general election in fact cast a ballot in the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County."

Bond's office said the report that he has forwarded to the federal prosecutor for evaluation and possible action was prepared by concerned citizens in St. Louis, including a number of lawyers, whom it refused to identify.

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