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To: PartyTime who wrote (102136)	12/5/2000 12:43:19 PM
From: The Street	Respond to of 769667

ALL STATES HAVE THIS-- Bad piece of journalism. Too bad-- because it is a great piece on how to END THE DRUG WAR. The idea was to enforce strictly an 1868 law disqualifying felons and ex-felons from voting for life. The law was originally part of the southern backlash against voter registration among freed slaves after the civil war, and was based on the assumption that black residents got in trouble with the law more often than their white counterparts. That assumption holds true today, in a state where African Americans make up 13% of the general population but 55% of prison inmates. According to Human Rights Watch, around a third of African American men in the state were disqualified from voting because of a past conviction, mostly resulting from the "war on drugs" that has been raging in urban America for two decades. But Ms Harris's list went further than simply upholding a 19th-century law. It included several thousand people who should not have been disqualified, either because they had gone through the arduous process of having their rights restored or because they had never been convicted of a felony in the first place.

To: PartyTime who wrote (102136)	12/5/2000 12:45:45 PM
From: md1derful	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Party..how ya doing, guy....did you read Judge Borks marvelous article in the wsj today.....better yet..be sure to read a letter from some election judge on the next page....supports what many of us have been saying for awhile here....,MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD in Palm Beach county accounting for an inordinate number of over votes..."remember that reducing your opponent's vote count is just as effective as adding new ballots for your candidate, and virtually undetectable"....Now lets get Judicial watch to reexaming all the overvotes to....this should be very frightening doc

To: PartyTime who wrote (102136)	12/5/2000 1:02:27 PM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

It never fails to disgust me to see the incredible frequency in which Democrats attempt to use Blacks and other minorities as pawns. It is if you feel they are your personal toys. Blacks owe you nothing. You should stop your divisive attempts to use them for your own personal political ambitions. They aren't sandbags for you to fill up at the sign of trouble! They aren't your pitbulls, attack dogs or pets of any kind. They are people. Just like all men and women. Not political tools. I find the consistent use of anothers inequitable past treatment a very weak position. Especially when one considers that the Democrat party did have so very many segregationists, including high ranking politicians.