GENE RANDALL, CNN ANCHOR: We begin in Seminole County and Mark Potter is there -- Mark.</s>MARK POTTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Gene, on Monday Judge Debra Nelson will decide whether to dismiss or allow a lawsuit that was filed here to continue. It was filed by attorney Harry Jacobs, who is also a Democratic vote count observer in the last election. It asks that thousands of Republican absentee ballots be thrown out because the county election supervisor allegedly, according to the lawsuit, violated the law by giving members of the Republican Party access to absentee ballot requests that had been rejected because they did not contain the voter's registration numbers as required by law.</s>HARRY JACOBS, PLAINTIFF: They then altered these defective and null and void absentee ballot requests by adding voter I.D. numbers. After completing this task, which took them 10 days to do, they then resubmitted these absentee ballot request forms to the supervisor of elections.</s>POTTER: But lawyers for the canvassing board and for the Republican Party say that that supervisor of election did absolutely nothing wrong and violated no state law. And they and the county attorney argue that even is she had done something wrong, the answer would not be to throw out all the absentee ballots.</s>ROBERT MCMILLAN, SEMINOLE COUNTY ATTORNEY: If that was improper, then the remedy is against the people who did it, not against the votes of the voters who voted. Those people sent in their applications. They cast their ballots and they were counted and they're innocent parties.</s>POTTER: Well, as you can imagine, the Democrats and the Republicans on this are accusing each other of playing politics. So we now find a judge caught in the middle. If she decides to keep the lawsuit alive there will be a hearing on all the evidence in this case a week from Monday. Gene, back to you.</s>RANDALL: Mark, thanks very much.
Lawsuit Filed in Seminole County to Throw Out 4,700 Absentee Ballots