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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject	5/31/2002 1:33:16 PM
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Five Senators ask Attorney General John D. Ashcroft about allegations of illegal purges of voter lists in Florida: washingtonpost.com ...The five senators asked Attorney General John D. Ashcroft to provide "detailed information" on nine voting rights investigations that were closed without any charges being filed. "The department apparently has chosen not to address the critical issues in Florida," said Sen. John Edwards (D-N.C.). Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.) said Justice's "failure to pursue any of the allegations of systematic, statewide voting irregularities in Florida . . . raise[s] serious questions about the department's commitment to vigorously enforcing the Voting Rights Act." Edwards and Kennedy joined Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Democratic Florida Sens. Bob Graham and Bill Nelson in asking Ashcroft for more information on the closed investigations. The department is pursuing charges in five jurisdictions, including three in Florida. The Democrats' complaints were prompted in part by a letter sent Tuesday to Leahy from Ralph F. Boyd Jr., the assistant attorney general for civil rights. Boyd wrote that there were "very few voters who actually were prevented from voting" in Florida. In addition, Democrats are angered that the Justice Department is pursuing charges in only three Florida counties -- Miami-Dade, Orange and Osceola -- and that the charges involve relatively noncontroversial issues of local failures to provide language assistance to Spanish- and Creole-speaking voters. The <federal> charges do not involve former secretary of state Katherine Harris, whom many civil rights leaders and Democrats accused of encouraging voting-rights denials, particularly by hiring a firm that produced a controversial list of voters to be considered for purging. "The timing and limited scope of this investigation seems to be more about wallpapering over the troubling records of [Florida Gov.] Jeb Bush and congressional candidate Katherine Harris than it is about seriously addressing what happened in Florida," said Jenny Backus, who was Vice President Al Gore's spokeswoman during the Florida recount.

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