Overseas voters get two ballots

After the Nader question delays things, Floridians living abroad get two chances to vote - sort of.

David Karp - October 2, 2004

In a classroom in Japan, the middle-schoolers learning English kept asking their American teacher about the election in Florida.

What really happened four years ago? they asked, and was she voting this year?

When Pamela Morse's overseas ballot arrived last week, she wondered if it was a joke.

A letter said Morse would get a second "official" ballot later and told her to mail both.

"I really hate to be paranoid," Morse wrote in an e-mail to the St. Petersburg Times, "but we who have received these ballots are questioning if this is some sort of trick to discount our votes?" Call it the Nader Effect.

It's the lastest example of election confusion in Florida, where the presidency could hang in the balance.

Around the globe, some 32,000 Floridians living abroad are getting similar absentee ballots in the mail. And they are confused.

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