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Voter registration accepted after deadline in Fla. county
Thu Oct 07 2004 20:15:03 ET

Theresa LePore vowed to close the Palm Beach County elections office at 5 p.m. Monday, the final day to register to vote in the Nov. 2 election, but a young man who arrived about 15 minutes after the deadline managed to drop off 550 applications on behalf of a group of Muslims determined to oust President George W. Bush.

Friday's PALM BEACH POST planning to report: LePore, no stranger to confrontations, said the man demanded she accept the bundles of voter registration applications attached to slips of paper identifying them as having been collected by Voting is Power (VIP), an offshoot of the Washington, D.C.-based Muslim American Society.

The POST's Dara Kam: LePore said he showed up about 15 minutes after she locked the door to her office at 5 p.m., carrying a box of applications. She said she told him her office was closed but he could mail the forms as long as they were postmarked by midnight that night.

But, she said, he wasn't satisfied, and managed to slip inside the lobby when someone left.

"He started hollering about disenfranchising people," said LePore, who took the box after he thrust it at her.

"Then he started saying, 'You're all alike,' or something to that effect, and 'It's better in New York,"' she said. "And I said, 'Why don't you go back to New York?"'

The man did not identify himself.

LePore said she let a few individuals turn in single registration forms until 6 p.m.

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