cicerone imposter wrote:Election 2004 - Bush and Black voter intimidation in Florida
by Robert Wilkinson
Even though this was reported a few weeks ago, it's important to remember as we approach this election that at least one of the Bush brothers has sent out the state troopers in yet another attempt to intimidate blacks in Florida. This anti-democratic heavy handed tactic targets elderly blacks who are trying to get out the vote. This is political jackbooting of the worst kind.....
Consider that the Florida legislature is overwhelmingly republican; how does Al Gore come close to getting elected president in the same state??
The answer seems to me to be obvious: the democrats can manufacture all the votes they like in their own districts and it will not affect the legislature since republicans will stilll win THEIR districts; vote fraud and manufacturing votes only affects statewide elections, i.e. elections for governor, US senators, and US presidents. Somehow or other, Jeb Bush is popular enough to get elected despite all the voter fraud.
Despite the networks calling the race at 6 PM and sending republican voters in the panhandle home without voting and despite everything else, W. was up 60,000 votes with half an hour to go when Al Gore called up to concede the race, and then, LO, A MIRACLE!!!!, the race was almost dead even thirty minutes later. My best guess is that somebody simply manufactured the necessary 60K votes and spread them around, and somehow or other missed his tally by a few hundred.
One democrat official was stopped with a Flori-duh voting machine in the trunk of his car which, in a democracy like ours, is the political equivalent of driving around with a neutron bomb in the trunk of his car.
100% voter turnout was being claimed in areas in which, on a given day, half the adult population is either drunk on their asses, cracked out, flaked out, dead, in prison, in exile, or otherwise incapacitated and, apparently, asking these guys to vote just the one time they're legally allowed to vote is now racism.
Is it really too much to ask democrats to play the game fairly?