Wake up, Florida voters
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check for yourself:
http://news.google.com/news?q=%22Mark+Crispin+Miller
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Here is the author giviing a GREAT TALK:
http://www.radio4all.net/proginfo.php?id=18069
DO NOT DARE to dismiss this topic without having
listened to the STRAIGHT DOPE
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Stephen Goldstein
No `verify,' no trust
Published May 10, 2006
Wake up, Florida voters: Because of our history of
hitches, glitches, pitches and switches at the polls,
your ballot may still be ditched this fall. We were
bushwhacked in 2000 and in 2004. And it may be déjà vu
all over again in 2006, unless you help implement the
single most important way to restore trust in our
elections.
Proof that voting in Florida is in free-fall is
everywhere. Go to www.voteprotect.org, click on
Maps/Research, then on Election 2004, for the tip of the
iceberg: 1,118 voter horror stories in Broward (the most
in the state), 712 in Palm Beach County, 1,115 in
Miami-Dade, and others around the state.
Then, digest these disheartening regurgitations from a
report of The National Research Commission on Elections
and Voting, A Project of the Social Science Research
Council (http://elections.ssrc.org/
research/FinalReport030105.pdf):
1. "Florida continued to have registration problems
prior to the 2004 election. One particularly stark
incident was the declaration of an assistant supervisor
of elections in Duval County that too many voter
registration cards were being filed and that his office
would not be able to process all of them despite its
legal obligation to do so."
2. "Approximately 60,000 absentee ballots [in Broward
and Palm Beach counties] were never mailed, even though
the Supervisors of Elections claimed to have delivered
them in a timely fashion to their post offices."
Scratch your head over a report on the 2004 general
election in Miami-Dade from the county's Election Reform
Coalition (www.reformcoalition.org). Among a pile of
puzzlements, it concludes that seven polling places had
between 50 and 99 more voters than ballots and that four
polling places had over 100 more voters than ballots. In
addition, six polling places had between 52 and 100 more
ballots than voters, and one polling place had 282 more
ballots than voters.
New York University Professor Mark Crispin Miller sees a
Republican plot in "the felonies, anomalies and
improprieties" in Florida voting that, he says, "were
more numerous and flagrant than in any other state,"
including Ohio. The author of Fooled Again: How the
Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the
Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them), Miller fills 350
pages with facts that should shatter your trust in
elections in general and Florida elections in
particular, if you still had any:
1. In 2003, our Republican-dominated Legislature "passed
the Provisional Ballot Statute, which dictates that
provisional ballots must be cast in the voter's
precinct, and nowhere else" -- a requirement that is
stricter than federal law and that Miller believes was
done to suppress the vote. He also quotes an Associated
Press report that "two-thirds of Florida's provisional
ballots had been tossed."
2. In Duval County, home to Jacksonville, a city of 840
square miles, "Republicans [were able] to slash the
early vote by setting up just one early-polling place,
conveniently located miles away from Jacksonville's
black neighborhoods."
3. "All over Florida ... countless would-be voters told of
the machines they used, or tried to use, malfunctioning
in Bush's favor. Machines would not take Kerry votes, or
turned them into Bush votes."
4. Voters in minority precincts were disproportionately
targeted for challenging. Miller quotes a published
report that in Miami-Dade County, "Democrats said, 59
percent of predominantly black precincts have at least
one Republican poll watcher, while [only] 24 percent of
predominantly white precincts have them" -- a pattern
repeated in at least Leon and Alachua counties.
5. Once again, in 2004, a system to purge felons from
voter lists wound up disenfranchising and harassing
legitimate voters.
6. Jeb Bush and former Secretary of State Glenda Hood
fought off U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler's effort to get a
paper trail for touch-screen machines. (Undaunted,
Wexler is suing in federal court.)
Human error and duplicity aside, Florida voters will
never trust election results until the state has done
everything it can to make electronic voting fail-safe.
Urge Secretary of State Sue Cobb (850-245-6501) and Jeb
(850-488-4441) to order paper backup -- immediately.
The least that our Bush can do in 2006 would be to take
an obvious first step to restore our faith in democracy
that the other Bush whacked away in 2000.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/opinion/columnists/sfl-sgcol10may10,0,5162832.column
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middle America will agree with this movie and
brave patriots will sue and arrest the MAFIA IN OFFICE.
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Jim Higgins
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> MUST SEE, show it to every US american...
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