Craven de Kere wrote:The only hole now is the one PDiddie referenced that suggests pre-election dastardly behavior.
To me that accusation doesn't hold water. It would indicate near-perfect foresight by the alleged perpetrators. They'd have to have known that the election would be that close because voting fraud on that scale would simply not make sense if it were not for the sake of playing king-maker.
You're entitled to your opinion.
Everyone knew the election was close; the parties, the press, the pollsters. Too close to call, in states across the nation, and particularly Florida.
Motive.
The Secretary of State of Florida, Katherine Harris, the elections registrar, was the Bush state campaign chairperson. The three people on the board of the Florida Elections commission were Harris, Clay Roberts, and Jeb Bush.
Means.
And if you click on the links I provide in the previous post you can clearly see the influence Harris and Roberts had on the discriminant removal of minority voters by Choicepoint in the two years prior to the 2000 election.
This body of evidence is the proof. 94,000 Florida voters -- supposedly felons but the overwhelming majority innocent of any crime; more than half of them black or Hispanic -- removed from the voter rolls by the Florida Secretary of State.
Opportunity.
To me it presents only one conclusion, Craven; I respect the fact that you simply don't agree.
But your rationalization ("it would require perfect foresight") isn't a refutation.
I'll offer a few last bits of anecdotal evidence, none of which are likely to convince a closed mind:
Quote:TALLAHASSEE, Dec. 18 -- A call was placed from the cell phone of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris to George W. Bush's mansion in Austin at 11:50 p.m. on election night, records show.
The phone call, which lasted two minutes, came more than 90 minutes after the television networks began rescinding projections that Vice President Gore had won Florida, but long before they prematurely called the race for Bush.
Wa Po
Quote:"Florida's wrong," Rove had insisted in a telephone call earlier in the evening, when the networks had called the state for Gore.
Wa Po
Quote:The head of Fox's projection team said he spoke five times with his cousin, George W. Bush, on election night but insists he did not give out confidential exit poll information. Bush got that information elsewhere, he said.
John Ellis, an election night consultant for Fox, was hired by Inside.com to write an account of what happened that night; it was posted on the Web site (Dec. 11, 2000).
Publicity about his relationship to Bush has proved an embarrassment to Fox, whose executives were angry with him Monday for writing about it. The network is still investigating whether Ellis, who was working on a temporary contract, provided the Bush campaign with insider data.
Fox was criticized for having a Bush cousin as director of its team responsible for projecting the presidential race. The network, and Ellis, said an executive above Ellis had the final say on whether a state was called.
CNN
Means. Motive. And lots of Opportunity.
But, like I said, if you don't see it....never mind.
