-Caveat Lector-
{Now apply the same exaggeration rate of this episode to the Demonrat
outrageous claims about cabinet nominees for a much more accurate picture of
reality. Normal people would be embarassed to have lied like this but then
I guess that depends on what your definition of normal is. AKE}
No Evidence of Florida Vote Plot
NewsMax.com
Friday, Jan. 12, 2001
So far, Jesse Jackson's allegation of a statewide Republican conspiracy to
disenfranchise black Florida voters has fizzled out at a Commission on Civil
Rights hearing.
The United States Commission on Civil Rights voted unanimously last month to
conduct its own investigation of accusations by the militant black activist
and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that
widespread voter fraud involving minorities in the Nov. 7 election in
Florida had cost Democratic Vice President Al Gore the presidency.
They laid the blame squarely on the Republican governor, Jeb Bush, brother
of the victorious Republican candidate, George W. Bush.
Under Florida law, independently elected supervisors in each county
determine what balloting devices are used.
In all counties where Jackson and the NAACP have alleged voter fraud, it was
Democratic and Independent, not Republican, local election officials who
were in charge.
Florida's secretary of state, a constitutional official elected statewide
and independent of the governor, is responsible for overseeing the execution
of election laws.
At the end of the first day of their hearing in the state capital,
Tallahassee, commission members were at a loss to explain why none of the
accusers' key witnesses could offer even one shred of evidence to back up
the allegations of a GOP conspiracy to steal Florida's critical electoral
votes for the Republican nominee.
A story in the Friday issue of the Washington Times reports that:
None of three black voters called as leadoff witnesses could show the
commission that they had been denied their right to vote in the election.
John Nelson, Roberta Tucker and the Rev. Willie D. Whiting, all of
Tallahassee, testified under oath that although they had concerns and had
read about problems of voter irregularities, they all had voted at their
polling precincts:
. Nelson recalled having seen unmanned police cars near different polling
places on Election Day and thought that was "unusual."
. Tucker said that although she was detained briefly at a routine police
driver's-license checkpoint that had been functioning for weeks before the
election and was no closer than two miles from any polling place, she was
waved on after producing her valid license.
. Whiting said his name had been purged by mistake from the voting rolls
when he had inaccurately been identified as a felon, but he was allowed to
vote after a call to an election supervisor.
The commission chair, Mary Frances Berry, said that even though not one of
the witnesses in the daylong hearing had been denied access to a polling
site, "we know some bad things happened."
Then she added: "I have not concluded that there was a conspiracy. I just
don't know yet."
Noting that Florida law allows the governor to appoint "special officers to
investigate violations of election law," she said she had not determined
whether the evidence was sufficient to suggest he should have done so.
Florida's governor, subpoenaed to appear before the commission, testified
that a preliminary investigation by state officials found no evidence of
wrongdoing, but state and federal authorities are continuing to investigate.
Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics:
Presidential Race 2000
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