-Caveat Lector- "Statewide, the largest numbers of voting problems were found in precincts with high proportions of black and elderly voters. Under the settlement, both sides will work to restore voters who were wrongly removed from voters lists in the 2000 election. Many law-abiding voters across the state said their names were dropped because they were mistakenly pegged as ex-cons, who generally aren't allowed to vote in Florida. "
this may be heavy for survivors Vatican Denies Role in Fraud Scheme - Vatican City (AP) - The Vatican, targeted in a federal lawsuit in the United States, denied any involvement Wednesday in a $200 million-plus insurance fraud scheme run by jailed financier Martin Frankel. As it did when the scandal surfaced three years ago, the Vatican distanced itself from a prelate and two charities named in the suit. The lawsuit, filed last Thursday in Mississippi by the insurance commissioners of Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Oklahoma and Arkansas, accuses the Vatican and Monsignor Emilio Colagiovanni of racketeering and fraud. From AOL A Vatican Lawyer Says Bishops Should Not Reveal Abuse Claims By Laurie Goodstein "An influential canon lawyer at the Vatican has written an article to be published today in a Vatican-approved Jesuit journal saying that Roman Catholic bishops should not turn over allegations or records of sexual abuse by priests to the civil authorities. The article in the magazine Civilta Cattolica by the Rev. Gianfranco Ghirlanda, dean of the canon law faculty at Gregorian University in Rome, is the second indication in recent weeks that inside the Vatican, influential church officials may disapprove of the response of American bishops to the abuse scandal. Last month, the head of a Vatican council, Archbishop Julián Herranz, also said that the bishops should not be required to turn over records on abusive priests to prosecutors." http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/national/18BISH.html?ex=1022806537&ei=1&en=4 616017a5315c4e7 http://www.truthout.org/docs_02/04.28A.Election.Fraud.htm http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Election-Lawsuit.html Quietly Florida Admits 2000 Election Fraud By The Associated Press 4/26/02 MIAMI (AP) -- A federal judge has approved a settlement between Leon County and civil rights groups that sued over widespread voting problems in the 2000 presidential election in Florida. The state and six other counties remain in the case brought by the NAACP and four other groups who sued in a dispute that grew out of the long-uncertain results of Florida's vote for president. "There was nothing they were seeking that was impossible to achieve," Ion Sancho, Leon County supervisor of elections, said Friday. "I've been a proponent of settlement from the moment the lawsuit was filed." Thomasina Williams, one of the attorneys for voters, said settlement talks are under way with other counties, and she was optimistic that some will follow Leon's move. Trial is set for Aug. 26. State lawmakers changed election laws in response to complaints after the 2000 election, but critics said the changes didn't go far enough. In the biggest departure from current procedures, Leon agreed to give a written explanation to voters whose ballots are rejected. The idea to make that a state standard was discarded by the Legislature. The groups that sued agreed that the settlement "achieves some if not all of the relief" they could have obtained at trial, according to the court order dropping Leon from the lawsuit last week. The county agreed to address disputes over voting, voter registration and voting lists and will meet with community groups to boost registration, with special efforts targeting minorities and college students. Sancho said he was doing all of that before. Many voters said their votes didn't count or they were turned away from polls due to mistakes on voter lists, busy telephone lines at election headquarters, punch-card voting machine foul-ups and other problems. Statewide, the largest numbers of voting problems were found in precincts with high proportions of black and elderly voters. Under the settlement, both sides will work to restore voters who were wrongly removed from voters lists in the 2000 election. Many law-abiding voters across the state said their names were dropped because they were mistakenly pegged as ex-cons, who generally aren't allowed to vote in Florida. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/18/business/18ENRO.html?ex=1022808685&ei=1&en=6 01b35ee1eea78e7 Democrats Pressure White House to Disclose Enron Contacts By RICHARD A. OPPEL Jr. WASHINGTON, May 17 — Senate Democrats investigating the collapse of Enron are turning up the heat on the White House, with Senator Joseph I. Lieberman saying today that he plans to subpoena the Bush administration about its contacts with the company, which was once highly influential politically. 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