Goard allowed Florida Republican Party workers to modify absentee ballot requests in her office in the weeks leading up to the election.

The GOP workers added voter-ID numbers to about 2,000 requests initially rejected by Goard's office. Jacobs, a Democrat, asked the courts to throw out the nearly 16,000 absentee ballots cast by Seminole County voters.

Had Jacobs won, then-Vice President Al Gore would have defeated George W. Bush for the presidency.

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