-Caveat Lector-
{I suspect Ms. Berry and the US Commission on Civil Rights
will HAVE to come up with something in order to keep their
funding high. After all, they look foolish investigating
nothing as they are doing. That is why Ms. Berry said
Kathleen Harris was laughable--to project her own foolish
appearance onto somebody else. I also wonder why the
Democrats did this thing with the felony rolls as testimony
given stated 47 of 67 county supervisors are Democrats and
not all of the supervisors even used this "purged list." I
also wonder if those supposedly concerned about
"disenfranchisement" are concerned about the whites in the
panhandle where this happened. They were likely Bush
voters. I am sure they are (NOT!) and this is not just yet
something else for whining (IS!) as the Miami Herald
examination of ballots showed a gain for Bush and not Gore.
Just depends upon who is doing a hand count how it comes
out. So having stipulated to no evidence of malice nor
intent, this is a "tempest in a teacup" and JJ Jr was on
CSPAN telling how all (his words) politics at the local
level are Democratic in the South. Brian Lamb neglected to
call him a liar even once, Radman. But this same thing
happened in JJJr's own home state so he needs to attend the
beam in his own eye before worrying about the splinter in
Florida's. IMHO. AKE}}
JAY AMBROSE: Inexcusable, but a conspiracy?
Copyright � 2000 Nando Media
Copyright � 2000 Scripps Howard News Service
Scripps Howard News Service
(December 15, 2000 11:46 p.m. EST
http://www.nandotimes.com) - It appears that some Florida
residents were incorrectly purged from voter rolls on the
suspicion that they were felons, representing themselves as
someone who had died or were mentally incapacitated. This is
an outrageous blunder. But there does not yet appear to be
any evidence to support the nearly hysterical critics now
suggesting that what happened was some sort of nefarious
Republican plot to keep blacks from voting.
Some columnists have gone so far as to suggest it was
Secretary of State Katherine Harris - described in one
article as "frothingly partisan" - who engineered the purge
through signing on a Republican-leaning company to search
out ineligible voters in the state. In fact, the state
legislature initiated the effort through statute after a
1997 Miami mayoral election in which fraud was committed.
The St. Petersburg Times points out that Harris's
predecessor, Sandra Mortham, was in office at the time the
contract was made with Data Base Technologies, a company
that later merged with ChoicePoint.
The company did make mistakes, and acknowledged as much last
summer. Company spokesmen have told reporters that they knew
errors were inevitable in the matches they did of databases
and that it was up to county officials to verify information
on the lists produced. Some counties decided not to use the
lists at all, and others tried hard to make sure those
identified as ineligible to vote were ineligible.
Some counties did not make such an effort, it seems, and
some of those showing up to vote on Election Day encountered
difficulties that in some instances reportedly kept them
from voting at all. One official has told the press that in
her county voters listed as ineligible were allowed to take
oaths that they were not felons.
The mistakes are inexcusable, an example, it would seem, of
incompetence trampling on citizen rights or of a state law
that looked to clumsy corrective measures for fraud. Perhaps
the law should be changed, and it can be argued, for that
matter, that there should be changes in the state
constitution that makes Florida one of the 14 states that
exclude felons from voting. But before the election, George
W. Bush's brother, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, had afforded
clemency restoring voter rights to some felons, and it is
reprehensible in the absence of any evidence to allege some
sort of GOP conspiracy to keep large numbers of minorities
from voting.
<A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A>
DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER
==========
CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic
screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are
sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis-
directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with
major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought.
That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and
always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no
credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply.
Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector.
========================================================================
Archives Available at:
http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html
<A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of
[EMAIL PROTECTED]</A>
http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
<A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A>
========================================================================
To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email:
SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Om
