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Re: Florida records retention schedule question



Record retentions are available online through dlis at:
http://www.dos.state.fl.us/dlis/barm/genschedules/gensched.htm
As I understood in class today, the records are retained for 22 months, but
have not accessed the schedule regarding ballots.

At 09:03 AM 12/5/00 -0500, you wrote:
>I was talking to a new neighbor over the weekend, and a question came
>up which I am sure will be of interest to many people, and I suspect
>there is someone on the list who can answer it. Does Florida have a
>records retention schedule that applies to the ballots from this
>election, and if so, what is the retention period for ballots?  A
>columnist in _Time_ magazine raised the scenario that two years into
>the G. W. Bush administration (as it appears it is going to be)
>someone might manage to make a full recount of the Florida ballots and
>discover that Al Gore actually carried Florida, and what then? So
>we're curious to know if this would even be a possibility.
>
>
>
>Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
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