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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (459091)	9/15/2003 5:18:39 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

The conspiracies are not under rocks. They're in plain sight for all to see. Some choose to ignore the facts if it fits their predisposed point of view. There was a court case regarding the 60,000, mostly Black voters that were purged from the rolls. They simply responded by saying ooops...sorry. It was an accident. It wasn’t reported in mainstream press, but the NAACP sued Harris and the gang for the black purge, and won. The state threw up its hands immediately and said, ‘You got us! We’ll put these people back as soon as we can.’ We’re still waiting. Then I suppose that is was an accident that Florida changed the contractor for auditing the rolls, and upped their pay too. The Florida Republicans wanted to block African Americans, who largely vote as Democrats, from voting. In 1999 they fired the company they were paying $5,700 to compile their felony “scrub” lists and replaced them with Database Technologies [DBT], who they paid $2.3 million to do the same job. [DBT is the Florida division of Choicepoint, a massive database company that does extensive work for the FBI.] There are a lot of Joe Smiths in the Florida phonebook. DBT was hired to verify which Joe Smith was a felon and which was not. They were supposed to use their extensive databases to check credit cards, bank information, addresses and phone numbers, in addition to names, ages, and social security numbers. But they didn’t. They didn’t use one of their 1,200 databases to verify personal information, nor did they make a single phone call to verify the identity of scrubbed names. Then they didn't use their own databases, they used internet databases and did the final purging of the rolls by race, ensuring that white Mr. Green was left on the rolls while black Mr. Green was purged. I suppose it was an accident that this contractor is in the GOP pocket, and visa versa too? You have to read this entire story at: gregpalast.com It's too important to ignore. Orca