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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (9295)	1/12/2001 9:09:07 PM
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Rights Panel Begins Inquiry Into Florida's Voting System By DANA CANEDY Excerpt from The New York Times January 11, 2001 "The hearings began with testimony from voters, including Willie D. Whiting Jr., a black pastor from Tallahassee who said that when he tried to vote with his family, he was told his name had been purged from the rolls because he was a convicted felon. "I have never spent a night in jail anywhere," Mr. Whiting said. Only after threatening to retain a lawyer, Mr. Whiting testified, was he permitted to vote. He said that he left feeling abused by the system and embarrassed at having pollworkers and others assume he was a convict. "It was like having a bad credit card at a restaurant," he said. Roberta Tucker, a black woman from Tallahassee who works as a clerk in the state labor department, testified that she had been intimidated by a Florida Highway Patrol roadblock near her polling place. She said she was stopped and ordered to produce a driver's license before being permitted to proceed. nytimes.com