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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Raymond Duray who wrote (4431)2/28/2004 10:59:38 AM
From: laura_bush  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 173976
 
Greg Palast:

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The purge of black voters in Florida was the herald of an ugly new development in our democracy. Where once African Americans had to fear night-riders in white sheets, the new threat to their civil rights comes from politicians armed with computer programs—“lynching by laptop” one called it. And now, King warns, America faces “Florida-tion of the nation”—the system that disenfranchised tens of thousands of black folk in Florida would now be imposed by a new federal law upon all 50 states.

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