FLORIDA ELECTION PROBLEMS COLORBLIND
Judicial Watch Independent Audit Found No Racial Bias
US Commission on Civil Rights Report is “Political”
(Washington, DC) Judicial Watch, the public interest law firm that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today took issue with some of the reported conclusions about the Florida election controversy by the US Commission on Civil Rights. The report by the Commission, which is headed by an appointee of disgraced President Bill Clinton, said that black voter ballots were “statistically” more likely to be rejected than the ballots of other groups.
Judicial Watch, which hired the independent accounting firm of Johnson, Lambert & Co. to conduct a non-partisan audit of ballots in dispute, found absolutely no evidence of racism. Judicial Watch did find evidence of possible fraud and evidence that election officials in certain counties enacted procedures that benefited Al Gore, but found no evidence that race was a factor considered by any election official in the counting of ballots. Judicial Watch was the first independent group to gain access to the disputed ballots and fought both Al Gore and then Governor Bush in court to enforce its right to conduct its own recount. A copy of the report is available on the Internet at www.judicialwatch.org.
“There were problems with the Florida election and Judicial Watch made suggestions in its Final Report to help ensure better elections in the future. The Commission, by issuing a report written by Democrats only, has undermined any sensible suggestions it may have had about the conduct of the Florida election. We respectfully suggest that the non-partisan Judicial Watch’s Report will be more useful to the American people and policymakers than the corrupted Commission report,” stated Judicial Watch Chairman Larry Klayman. |
