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To: Techplayer who wrote (9964)	4/8/2003 2:45:45 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 21614

It's not a mystery lawsuit at all. But the settlement was out of court and not made public. However, those in the know know what it was. And for you to deny it's true is laughable.

To: Techplayer who wrote (9964)	4/8/2003 2:47:29 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 21614

LOS ANGELES.- The last presidential election, Greg Palast, journalist for the BBC and the newspaper The Guardian, investigated a voters purge list in the Florida electoral list. According to his investigation, up to 57,000 persons, the majority of them African American and Democrats, had their voting rights removed. The story is repeated in today´s election. In his book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Palast tells how the State of Florida hired a company named DBT for four million dollars to remove felons from the electoral list to keep them from voting. Palast demonstrates how Jeb Bush´s office asked DBT to grow the list to the max, including voters with similar names and born on the same date as the felons. Thousands of people came to the electoral office to vote only to find out that they were felons. Originally we thought it was 57,000 people that were purged. Now I got the info from DBT that there were 94,000 people in this list. 91,000 were innocent. If those people have voted, Al Gore would most likely have received the 537 votes that he needed to win. What makes the story so sad and rotten is that the Secretary of State of Florida, Katherine Harris, has agreed that innocent people were removed, but they dragged their feet and have used this same list in this election. According to the settlement from the NAACP lawsuit, the State has to revise the list and return the voting rights to the innocent ones. But they are going to wait until after the elections to do so. Jeb Bush arranged to steal the election in 2000 for his brother, and is keeping it stolen for his own re-election. Election 2000 is not old news; it’s what happening on Tuesday. On top of that, computerized voting - it’s a real nightmare. Machines continue to fail in black districts in Florida. It happened in September and we will see it on Tuesday. All the problems of 2000, but it’s going to be worse. -What is surprising is that the main media channels are not talking about this. News organizations are fearful about getting info out on a president during war time. DBT has recognized its errors and has decided not to do any more purge lists. Did they give the four million dollars back to the State? No. I spoke with Bob Butterworth, State Attorney General, and I asked him why didn´t he present a lawsuit for this fraud against the state? He told me he´s not in charge of the investigation and he cannot arrest anyone. The investigation is in the hands of Katherine Harris. The other people that could do something about it are the US Justice Department, that is John Ashcroft, who got the job because of this theft, or the Supreme Court. Perfect crime. The cops and the criminals are the same people. Do you think that the 2004 presidential elections will depend on whether Jeb Bush wins or loses this elections? Florida is America’s swing state. It’s the only state were the vote is equally divided. That’s why they have to steal it in 2002 if they want to steal it in 2004. Isn´t there anyone doing something to restore the voting rights of these 91,000 innocent ´felons´? The NAACP is sending hundreds of students across the state to supervise the election and to educate people, telling voters that they have the right to ask for a provisional ballot if their name is in the list of purged criminals. That way they could have their vote counted once the list is revised.