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To: steve harris who wrote (293432)	7/10/2006 3:30:30 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1573223

GOP fed harris all kinds of garbage so that she would do their dirty work in FL. She performed the duties of her office according to the law. If you want to show she didn't, that would be a good start at showing everyone you're not a liar. Its true the evidence is circumstantial......given what I have learned about her since then, she is probably more incompetent than dirty. "As Secretary of State for the State of Florida, Harris presided over the contested 2000 US presidential election in Florida. There were allegations of conflicts of interest and partisan, unethical behavior in Katherine Harris's actions during the 2000 campaign. Among Democrats, a factor which rankled was the fact that Harris had been named as Bush's Florida campaign co-chair the year before. Bob Butterworth, the Florida state Attorney General, served as co-chair of Gore's campaign. A number of other elected officials of both parties actively campaigned for their respective national candidates. After Miami mayor Xavier Suarez was removed from office in 1998 due to absentee ballot fraud, state election officials hired Database Technologies Inc. (DBT) of Boca Raton to scan the state's database of registered voters for felons, who are prohibited from voting by state law, and dead people. [14] By the election, DBT had created a list of 57,700 convicted felons that Harris would purge from the voter rolls. The felon "scrub lists" allegedly removed 8,000 registered voters and some private investigators have claimed the number is as high as 55,000, but Choicepoint (the company that has since acquired DBT says those numbers are "simply wrong". Choicepoint asserts that many who claimed to have been "scrubbed" had attempted to vote at precincts in which they were not registered.[15] Those removed from the voting rolls included people convicted only of misdemeanors and those who had the same names and birthdays as the felons. On Election Day 2000, some persons, including those claiming to have been erroneously listed as felons, were reported to have been turned away from the polls. The use of felon "scrub lists" was strongly criticized as an attempt to disenfranchise poor and African-American voters in particular.[16][17] Some states permit even felons to vote after they have served their time. Others require a civil pardon. Florida has a complex process which requires a released prisoner to apply to a state-commission, the Executive Clemency board, for a restoration of civil rights. Harris certified that the Republican candidate, then-Texas Governor George W. Bush, had defeated the Democratic candidate, Vice-President Al Gore, in the popular vote of Florida and thus certified the Republican slate of electors. Her ruling was challenged, and overturned on appeal by Florida's Supreme Court. This decision, however, was itself reversed by the U.S. Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore. That Court ruled (5-4) that Gore's request to extend Florida's statutory deadline for ballot re-counts had no merit, because no Florida law at the time provided for that option. This ruling nullified the state court's decision, upholding Harris' certification. Because the statutory vote-counting deadline expired weeks before the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling, Gore had effectively run out of time to legally challenge Florida's official results. The decision foreclosed any further court challenges by Gore and resulted in Bush's margin of victory in Florida being officially tallied at 537 votes. When this became official, Florida's electoral votes—and the Presidency—went to George W. Bush. Harris later wrote Center of the Storm, her own memoir of the 2000 election controversy, in which she presents an account supportive of her decisions and takes issue with some of her critics. She was also heavily featured in the documentary Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election. en.wikipedia.org

To: steve harris who wrote (293432)	7/10/2006 3:31:34 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573223

Oops! Coulter columns subject of plagiarism investigation By Hillel Italie The Associated Press NEW YORK — The syndicator of Ann Coulter's newspaper column is looking into allegations that the right-wing pundit has lifted material from other sources. "We are reviewing the material and expect to have a response some time next week," Kathie Kerr, a spokeswoman for Universal Press Syndicate, said Friday. The New York Post and the Web sites Raw Story and the Rude Pundit have raised numerous questions about Coulter's columns, which appear in more than 100 newspapers, and her best-selling "Godless," already notorious for the author's calling four 9/11 widows, who supported Democrat John Kerry for president in 2004, "harpies" thriving on their husbands' demise. Kerr said that the press syndicate had not discussed the allegations with Coulter, who was not available for comment Friday. The publisher of "Godless," the Crown Publishing Group, issued a statement saying it had reviewed the "the allegations of plagiarism" in her book and "found them to be as trivial and meritless as they are irresponsible." "As an experienced author and attorney, Ms. Coulter knows when attribution is appropriate, as underscored by the 19 pages and hundreds of endnotes contained in 'Godless,' " said Crown's senior vice president and publisher, Steve Ross. Coulter's career has rarely suffered despite numerous questions about her accuracy and her scathing remarks about political opponents. An exception was in 2001, soon after the Sept. 11 attacks, when Coulter was fired by the conservative National Review Online for writing about the hijackers: "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity." seattletimes.nwsource.com