Re: [CTRL] The Burden of Florida
-Caveat Lector- I think you are right, flw. This is why these machines are still used in S. FL and Chicago, Daley's home district. These are places of historic voter fraud. Looks like they fumbled this one! Kindred --- flw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -Caveat Lector- > > Radman posts: > > According to a Washington Post analysis, the > higher the percentage of black > > voters in a given precinct, the higher the rate of > ballot rejection. In > > Jacksonville, a third of the ballots cast in black > precincts were rejected, > > four times the number in white precincts. The > columnist Arianna Huffington > > sees a reminder here that "[W]e are indeed two > Americas In the > > precincts of the other America, there were longer > lines, more unreliable > > voting machines and less access to technology that > instantly identified > > mismarked ballots and gave voters a second chance > > More clueless braying from the lightweight > scribbling class. > It ain't about money. It ain't about "allocation of > resoures to > wealthy areas." > > For those with even minimal knowledge of American > Electoral Politics, > it is an open secret that in many urban Democratic > counties run by established political > machines, the voting system is INTENTIONALLY > unreliable. Why is this? So the > local Dem bosses can game the system when necessary. > > By controlling the aging or unreliable voting > machines and the Recount Process, the > local pols can basically rewrite the election when > an outsider (not approved by the local > bosses) "accidently" wins. > flw > > < __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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
Re: [CTRL] The Burden of Florida
-Caveat Lector- Radman posts: > According to a Washington Post analysis, the higher the percentage of black > voters in a given precinct, the higher the rate of ballot rejection. In > Jacksonville, a third of the ballots cast in black precincts were rejected, > four times the number in white precincts. The columnist Arianna Huffington > sees a reminder here that "[W]e are indeed two Americas In the > precincts of the other America, there were longer lines, more unreliable > voting machines and less access to technology that instantly identified > mismarked ballots and gave voters a second chance More clueless braying from the lightweight scribbling class. It ain't about money. It ain't about "allocation of resoures to wealthy areas." For those with even minimal knowledge of American Electoral Politics, it is an open secret that in many urban Democratic counties run by established political machines, the voting system is INTENTIONALLY unreliable. Why is this? So the local Dem bosses can game the system when necessary. By controlling the aging or unreliable voting machines and the Recount Process, the local pols can basically rewrite the election when an outsider (not approved by the local bosses) "accidently" wins. flw http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER == CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substancenot soap-boxingplease! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright fraudsis 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 http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl 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
[CTRL] The Burden of Florida
The Burden of Florida The cavalcade of racial injustice that was the Florida recount By Jack Beatty The Atlantic Monthly December 14, 2000 Race and class haunted the Florida recount. Political equality has been taken away from people whose ancestors died for the right to vote. According to a Washington Post analysis, the higher the percentage of black voters in a given precinct, the higher the rate of ballot rejection. In Jacksonville, a third of the ballots cast in black precincts were rejected, four times the number in white precincts. The columnist Arianna Huffington sees a reminder here that "[W]e are indeed two Americas In the precincts of the other America, there were longer lines, more unreliable voting machines and less access to technology that instantly identified mismarked ballots and gave voters a second chance." Even George W. Bush has said this disenfranchisement should be looked into, after the election, which the U.S. Supreme Court has now decided. The right to speak and, as the Florida Supreme Court wrote in its moving opinion that uncounted legal ballots must be counted, "the right to be heard" have been denied by the verdict of the conservative majority in Bush v. Gore. Let's review the cavalcade of injustice, starting with the chief injusticer, William Rehnquist. Years before President Nixon put him on the Court, he was a Republican heavy in Arizona, where he personally challenged black voters at the polls, much as white officials are reported to have done at polling places throughout Florida. Antonin, order over liberty, accelerate death for the disproportionately high number of African-American men convicted in capital cases and never mind that their buck-an-hour appointed lawyers fell asleep in court, Scalia is the mind of the far right. He's all brilliance joined to an infirm heart. Clarence Thomas, who never speaks during oral arguments, as if afraid of betraying his mediocrity, continues to give affirmative action an undeserved bad name. These three justices, one of whom (Rehnquist) has said he hopes to retire with Bush in the White House and two of whom (Scalia and Thomas) have relatives connected to the Bush lawyers or the Bush transition team, formed the political core of the five-vote majority finding for Bush, and against Gore, the Florida Supreme Court, and the people of Florida. To do so, they had to forget all the contumely they have heaped in past decisions on "judicial activism" and to set aside the fetish they have long made of federalism. The Supreme Court should not intervene in matters of state law except when the majority's presidential candidate needs to win a tainted victory. Such is the principle established in Bush v. Gore. In Florida we have Governor Jeb Bush, who abolished affirmative action in the state, triggering the mass mobilization of African-American voters against his brother that Florida's secretary of state sought to contain by hiring a private company to disqualify them. We have the redoubtable secretary herself, bidding for her ambassadorship. We have the anti-democrats in the Florida legislature, eager to nullify the will of the people and substitute their own. We have the bully boys dispatched to Florida by Tom DeLay to intimidate the Miami-Dade canvassing board, paladins of the First Amendment rewarded (or is it punished?) for their foot-stomping with tickets to hear Wayne Newton. We have the Republican governors auditioning for parts in the Bush Administration by vilifying the vote counters, canvassing-board members, voters, and the Florida Supreme Court. We have old Bob Dole being the old Bob Dole, denouncing the Broward County counters for "stealing the election." We have James Baker destroying his reputation. Dragged back into the arena by the ungrateful Bushes, Baker has made us forget that the political mechanic blackguarding the Florida judiciary was ever U.S. secretary of state. The Republicans, who have flourished by depicting Democrats as elitists, are showing a streak of royalism, throwing popular sovereignty overboard to elevate George II. Finally, in history we have the election of 1876 and the Electoral College. The talking heads have invoked 1876 to make surface parallels to today. But the significance of 1876 does not lie in the machinations that brought "Rutherfraud" B. Hayes to the White House. The low deal cut between the parties ended Reconstruction in the South, leaving newly enfranchised slaves under the dominion of white-supremacist state governments that used fraud and terror to keep blacks from voting for the next ninety years. Would it be asking too much of the pundits to draw the parallel between that disenfranchisement and the disenfranchisement in Florida documented by The Washington Post? Or to remark the sad irony of the Bush lawyers' using "equal protection of the laws"the pith of the post-Civil War Fourteenth Amendment granting the rights of citizenship to freed slaves, to shut down the recount
