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Thread #77194   Message #1672353
Posted By: Amos
18-Feb-06 - 06:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Nerd, I was wrong about Dean
Subject: RE: BS: Nerd, I was wrong about Dean
On the subject of Anne (the Knife) Coulter's own intelligence, this little story:

Poll worker told Coulter about address

By Jose Lambiet
Palm Beach Post Columnist

Friday, February 17, 2006

A Palm Beach poll worker says he tried to help GOP-loving pundit Ann Coulter vote in the right precinct last week. But, Jim Whited says, Coulter dashed out of the polling place when he told her she needed to file a change of address.

"I even ran out after her," he says. "But she was fast."

Later, elections records show, Coulter cast her ballot 2 miles up the road — in the wrong precinct.

Whited, a former candidate for WPB mayor, was posted at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Feb. 7 as a $185-a-day precinct adviser, records confirm.

"Ms. Coulter came to me, and the address we had for her in the computer didn't match the address I know she lives at," Whited says.

He says he remembered a Page Two story in April about Coulter, 44, buying a $1.8 million home on Seabreeze Avenue. Yet county elections records show Coulter gave an address in June at the northern tip of the island, on Indian Road, when she registered. Turns out the addresses are in different precincts.

"I just told her she had come to the right place, but we needed to fill out a change of address," says Whited, a staunch Republican who says he "likes the girl."

Instead, elections records show, Coulter cast her ballot in the town council election at St. Ed's church. That's where north-end Islanders vote.

But the owner of the Indian Road home where Coulter is registered, Realtor Susanne Frisbie, told Page Two this week that Coulter never lived there. Frisbie was Coulter's real estate agent and allowed her to forward mail there.

Registering to vote at the wrong address is a felony that could fetch up to five years in the slammer.

Neither Coulter, who made merciless fun of Palm Beach County voters in the 2000 presidential elections, nor her agents could be reached for comment.

Elections Chief Deputy Charmaine Kelly said late Thursday that Whited had not filed an incident report.

"What am I going to report?" Whited said. "That Ann Coulter came in and left when I tried to have her fill out a change of address? I didn't know where she went afterwards."