Florida...Jeb's at it again...?

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Florida, the Fun State, is off to a fast start on election shenanigans this year. Undeterred by the state's electoral disgrace in 2000, elections officials there have all but publicly announced, "We're going to cheat again this year." In July, voting rights groups asked for the audits of the 2002 gubernatorial election, supposedly collected by new electronic voting machines. Ooops. Records gone.

Two computer crashes last year, officials said, erased the records of both the primary and general elections. Here's my favorite part: A spokesman for the Miami elections office said the reason no announcement was made at the time was officials believed "it was merely a record-keeping issue." Said Seth Kaplan, "There's always a fine line between speaking out about things that are truly necessary to speak about and not unnecessarily alarming the public." How true that is.

Furthering the festive atmosphere is the unfortunate fuss over the felons' list. You may recall that in 2000, thousands of Floridians were deprived of the right to vote because they have the same names as someone, somewhere who was once convicted of a felony. If, for example, a "Bill Smith" in Kansas City had done time for burglary 20 years earlier, any "Bill Smith" in Sarasota, Seminole or Solana also found himself knocked off the voter rolls. It was a horrendous injustice and a scandal at the time. Who would have guessed that Gov. Jeb Bush would choose to simply repeat it? This guy has chutzpah out the wazoo.

In 2000, a firm with GOP connections was hired by then Secretary of State Katherine Harris (also chair of the state Bush-for-Prez campaign) to scan felon records nationwide and then purge Florida voters with similar -- or almost similar -- names. Bush officially carried Florida by 537 votes that year. Florida newspapers later found 8,000 of the blacklisted voters had been convicted of misdemeanors, not felonies.
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http://www.workingforchange.com/article.cfm?itemid=17468

The Checks and Balances which made Old America great are simply nonexistant in the Amerikan Empire today.

my mind is: Has this country "dumbed down" this much in the last 50 years to the point that a president this STUPID is acceptable? God help us if we have! Part of the problem is that children aren't made to learn, and are especially NOT made to learn their own country's CONSTITUTION! The school-quitting age should be 21, NOT 16! And a certificate should be issued to the quitting student, which he should be REQUIRED BY LAW to present to every prospective employer, indicating no graduation, so that the employer KNOWS what he's getting in advance, and can adjust for it!

:mad:

and I don;t know what the exact term is but we've been "Apathied Down" to the point where Tyranny, so long as it is Kinder and Genlter, does not engender sufficient opposition anymore.

In Bushmerika, that is enough to establish that Kinder and Genlter Tyranny, as we are now.

And almost none were Latino? Because blacks traditionally vote Democratic and Latinos (Cubans) mostly vote Republican?

Idiot's "get tough on Castro" BS has blown up in his face. Cubans are no longer going to vote for that buffoon, since he's cut them off completely from their relatives in Cuba.

is why the so called "liberal media" hasn't picked up on this and really drove it home...

There was obvious attempts to dictate and control who votes and who doesn't in Florida...Kathleen Harris and Jeb Bush should be investigated...but...that won't happen...protection provided by the BushCo crime family...!

are you talking about? CNN? MSRNC? FAUX NEWS? ABC? NBC? CBS? The only "Liberal Media" that would touch this is Jon Stewart of the "Daily Show"!

liberal media in quotes because some righties always say that the media is biased and partisan to the left...so hence the "liberal media"...