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The Blue Flower

(5,420 posts)
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 11:34 AM Aug 2016

Ion Sancho (in charge of FL voting process in 2000 election) interview on FL public tv

I've taken a few notes while watching (came in late):
1. The media totally missed the illegal lists that were generated ahead of the 2000 vote. He saw an email that directed a 70% error rate in excluding voters from voting if their name was similar to a convicted felon. People who'd been voting for 20 years were pulled out of lines and thrown out of the polling places under threat of arrest.
2. Current partisan efforts to tip the scales, as they're doing in N. Carolina are illegal and unAmerican.
3. There is no statute of limitations on the violation of voter rights so he will be writing and speaking about it to try to bring justice where rights have been and continue to be violated.
4. Current rules are deliberately disadvantageous to certain populations, such as University students being unable to vote when elections are scheduled for the weekend they come back to school.
5. The Chamber of Commerce has opposed a national voting holiday day in November because there are already so many holidays at that time of year.
6. He brought early voting to Florida and is seeing great enthusiasm for early voting
7. His book willl be about 2000. The illegalities that happened were basically not seen because it all appeared behind the scenes.

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Ion Sancho (in charge of FL voting process in 2000 election) interview on FL public tv (Original Post) The Blue Flower Aug 2016 OP
Any link or video? Sancho Aug 2016 #1
I don't know when it will be available The Blue Flower Aug 2016 #3
Some type of lawsuit for $$ damages need to be filed in multiple states. Ligyron Aug 2016 #2

Ligyron

(7,592 posts)
2. Some type of lawsuit for $$ damages need to be filed in multiple states.
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 11:46 AM
Aug 2016

I'm no lawyer but hit them where it hurts the most - in their pocketbooks.

Gov. Bat Boy and others around the country for starters.

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