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

To: Bill who wrote (63912)	4/26/2006 5:17:51 PM
From: American Spirit	Respond to of 173976

Jeb Bush cut 57,700 "former felons" (though thousands of them were simply people with the same names) off the Florida voter rolls in 2000. Most of the in-question voters who were denied their right to vote were black and therefore very likely to vote for Gore as Gore won 90% of the black vote. 8,000 names cut from the Florida rolls were given to Jeb by the Texas governor's office. Most of those were legal voters who were denied their right to vote. The GOP consulting group that handled this later claimed it was a "mistake". Some mistake. It put Bush in the White House. Bush "won" the election by 527 votes, though he actually didn't win at all. In other words, Bush was never fairly elected to begin with. He also only got by McCain using the most vicious and dishonest smear campaign I've ever heard of. Also thousands of "military ballots" came in late from overseas after the deadline and were counted, almost all for Bush. There is some question as to whether those were from real voters. Many were probably stuffed ballots. Also intimidation was used by Jeb Bush's people at black precincts and against the vote re-counters in Dade COuntry. We all remember the angry mob of rightwing thugs screaming outside the re-counting office, disrupting the counting. The NAACP sued Jeb Bush and won an out of court settlement. Even if a few thousand illegal voters voted for Kerry in Wisconsin it would not have changed the result. But that article does not specify that the illegal voters voted for Kerry. Many of them may have voted for Bush or Nader.