The Miami Herald | 05/27/2004 | Absentee ballot law is a joke that isn't funny: "``Every vote should count.''
-- Jeb Bush, upon signing into law a measure doing away with witness signatures for absentee ballots
...The problem with doing away with the witness signature should be obvious to anyone who has lived in Miami. Absentee ballot fraud has long been a problem in South Florida, with candidates often buying ballots, or worse, stealing them from unsuspecting people in nursing homes and condominiums. A city of Miami election in 1997 was overturned after such fraud."