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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Cola Can who wrote (111193)12/11/2000 7:04:30 PM
From: Mr. Whist  Read Replies (2) of 769670
 
Civil rights commission to hold hearings on Florida voter problems

Monday, 11 December 2000 18:33 (ET)

By KATHY GAMBRELL, Washington reporter for UPI

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights voted
last week to hold hearings to investigate allegations of voter
irregularities at the polls in Florida during the presidential election.

Krishna Toolsie, an aide for Commission Chairwoman Mary Frances Berry,
said Monday that the hearings will be held in early January. The commission
plans to announce the locations sometime this week.

The commission is an independent agency that investigates complaints of
discrimination and civil rights violations and submits its findings and
recommendations to the president and congress.

Minority voters had complained that they had been turned away from the
polls on Nov. 7 after workers there told them they were not registered to
vote, even though they held voter registration cards.

Officials the NAACP and Operation PUSH, headed by the Rev. Jessie Jackson
have charged that police intimidated minorities who were in route to the
polls, and that in the predominantly black Duvall County about 27,000
ballots went uncounted without the knowledge of Democratic leaders.

Jackson last week filed a lawsuit in Duvall County alleging voter fraud in
the thousands of uncounted ballots that elections officials failed to report
to state officials.

Rep. John Conyers Jr. said the U.S. Justice Department also sent civil
rights investigators to Florida last week.
"I am confident that it will evolve into a broader investigation," Conyers
said. "It's a sensitive subject. Eighty percent of those chads were ballots
of African Americans," Conyers said.
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