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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject11/29/2000 12:34:15 PM
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Slavery’s Legacy Shackled the Black Vote—And Cost Gore Thousands of Ballots
Democracy in
Chains
by Laura Conaway & James
Ridgeway

hey meant to vote for Al Gore.
Many came from the black, poor,
education-deprived neighborhoods of Jacksonville, and had never cast a
ballot before. But they got on the buses in Duval County, Florida, and
they went to the polls. They did just what the Democratic organizers
instructed: Punch a hole on every page.

And because the list of presidential contenders spilled over two pages,
thousands and thousands of them—an estimated one-third of the voters
in some precincts—punched the hole for Gore, then invalidated their
choice by stamping a minor-party candidate on the following leaf. In all,
27,000 Duval ballots had to be thrown out.
villagevoice.com
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