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

To: JDN who wrote (570456)	5/3/2004 8:55:48 PM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769669

I don't think it will be as close either. Sandintoes posted this a couple of weeks ago and it really cracked me up. "John Kerry will be the Democratic nominee for president. Democrats finally found someone who is Al Gore without the flash and the sizzle." -Craig Kilborn * * *

To: JDN who wrote (570456)	5/4/2004 5:57:17 PM
From: Nicholas Thompson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769669

You sure do not know what happened in Florida. Bush stole the election . I will just mention three things that tipped the votes to Bush and the numbers were significantly more than the disallowed late military write in votes or the mention that Gore won Florida which was made twenty minutes before the polls closed in extreme West Panhandle Florida. (this was so late and was in such a small part of the state that I seriously doubt it effected over a few dozen votes and that is stretching it to the max. First there was the unfair purging of voters by a contractor connected to Bush senior under Kathrine Harrises office and paid by the Florida taxpayer. Voters with a felony in another state were purged; the work was sloppy and there were at least 21,000 potential voters who did not have a felony in Florida or anywhere who were purged from the roles. When they came to vote they could not and it was too late to turn things around. More than half of the purged voters were minority voters and the big majority of all these voters were for Gore. (See book by Greg Palast) Second there has been studies that show Black Florida voter's ballots were rejected at a rate of approximately ten times the rate White Florida voter's ballots were rejected. Most of the Black voter ballot rejections were for minor marks on ballots and similar marks on ballots from mostly white districts were then often cause for a new ballot to be issued to the voter before the vote was counted but this chance to redo the ballot was rarely done in the primarily black districts (see US Civil Rights Commission records) In one mostly black county the ballot rejection rate was 14% and few voters were allowed a second ballot even though that was the usually the case in primarily white districts. The discrepancy amounts to around 100,000 denied votes and much more than half would have been for Gore. Third it is documented by local Florida radio stations that voters in a primarily Puerto Rican district near Orlando were required to show two forms of photo identification to vote ; many gave up as it was too late. And speaking about too late several voting stations in black and Hispanic- not Cuban- districts in south Florida cut off people who were in line but not voting because of the slow work of the polling workers ; see local news reports. I have several other examples, including the Duval county mess. I hope the readers get the point; without mentioning the BS about hanging chads or the mess in Palm Beach county, the GOP did a better job in stopping and misdirecting voters , much better than the Dems, and so stole the election in Florida. Neither party is clean but the GOP was just so much more organized ; not to mention Jeb B. helped Dubya in many ways. Gore was wrong not to force a recount in all 67 counties: such a statewide recount would have given him the win even without dealing with the denied voting issues, some of which I note above.