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To: Neocon who wrote (202297)	11/13/2001 2:32:54 PM
From: jlallen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Both good points. And we all know flappy is full of it anyway. But I have many problems with the actions of Col. North..... JLA

To: Neocon who wrote (202297)	11/13/2001 2:36:18 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769670

Another interesting finding in recount land. Did democrats create overvotes by intensionally double punching?????? Black Republicans Suffered Worst in Florida Vote Count The most interesting aspect to emerge from the media's Florida presidential election recount efforts may be this: Republicans - black Republicans, to be specific - suffered the highest rate of ballot spoilage by far. "At first glance, the numbers confirm the disturbing claims, repeated often this year, that African-American ballots were 'spoiled' - that is, not counted because they showed either no vote for president or multiple votes - at higher rates than the ballots of other groups," wrote John R. Lott Jr. and James K. Glassman in Monday's Los Angeles Times. "But if spoiled ballots do indicate disenfranchisement, then the new data show that, by a dramatic margin, the group most victimized in the Florida voting was African-American Republicans," the duo contended. "The new findings show that African-American Republicans who voted in Florida were in excess of 50 times more likely than the average African-American to have had a ballot declared invalid because it was spoiled." Another heretofore overlooked detail uncovered by Lott and Glassman: Among white voters, Republicans were much more likely than Democrats to have spoiled ballots. "We found that the overall rate of spoiled ballots was 14 percent higher when the county election supervisor was a Democrat and 31 percent higher when the supervisor was an African-American Democrat." The new numbers suggest that there may have been a concerted attempt to suppress the votes of more than 20,000 of the Sunshine state's black Republicans, Lott and Glassman said. newsmax.com tom tosiwmee

To: Neocon who wrote (202297)	11/13/2001 2:40:42 PM
From: Mr. Whist	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

At the Iran-contra trials, Reagan's Nation Security aide, Oliver North was found guilty of altering and destroying documents, accepting an illegal gratuity, and aiding and abetting in the obstruction of Congress. Former National Security adviser John Poindexter was convicted of five felonies involving conspiracy, obstruction of Congress, and false statements. Robert McFarlane pleaded guilty to withholding information from Congress. Oliver North and John Poindexter both had their convictions overturned on appeal by two Reagan appointees, Judge Lawrence H. Silberman, who served as a foreign policy advisor to Ronald Reagan's 1980 campaign, and Judge David Sentelle, who named his daughter Reagan, after the president.