Carter says Florida Voting Still Not Fair

linuxwrangler writes "Ex president Jimmy Carter is claiming that Florida has still not created conditions for a fair election. The Carter Center has monitored over 50 elections worldwide for fairness and says that the absence of uniformity in voting procedures and the lack of a non-partisan election commission sets the stage for a repeat of the 2000 election. That election, overseen by Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris (aka co-chair of the Bush-Cheney state campaign committee), was officially decided by a margin of 537 votes. According to Carter, Florida governor Jeb Bush (aka brother of George W. Bush) has done little to correct the problems found in the 2000 election. In addition, Harris' successor Glenda Hood, (aka an elector for George W. Bush in 2000) recently attempted to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons."

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AKA

[Anonymous Coward]

Enough with the Moore-ish implied-conspircacy nudge-nidge wink-wink -ing. If you have evidence, slap it on the barrelhead. If not, do feel free to STFU. It's too easy a game to play to be of any substance otherwise. For example, why beleive Jimmy Carter (AKA, killer-rabbit victim, UFO-report filer, and the foreign-policy softie who voluntarily divested us of the Panama Canal)?

Carter?

[meta-monkey]

Maybe if Carter would stop praising every two-bit dictator in the world, I would care what he says about democratic elections.

Carter Lies.

[DAldredge]

https://registration.miami.com/reg/login.do?url=ht tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.miami.com%2Fmld%2Fmiamiherald%2F912 6001.htm

The method of determining how convicted felons would be identified was laid out in a 2002 settlement agreement between the state and several civil rights groups. The method uses race as one of several factors to determine whether a felon has registered to vote. The others are first name, last name and date of birth. If one of those fails to match up, the name is not added to the list for potential purging.

But the database of felons supplied by FDLE does not list Hispanic as an ethnic group ''believe it or not,'' said Nicole DeLara, spokeswoman for the secretary of state. ``We have not been able to determine why this wasn't caught. The potential felon database is now retroactively void.''

Re:waahhhh

[sadomikeyism]

Typical ignorance of a whiner. You CAN vote as a felon as soon as you leave the pen in all but 14 states. THOSE 14 states reqire the following:

a) that you finish your parole/probation, pay any fines (that is part of your punishment too, not just your incarceration),

and

b) petition the court for relief of civil disability. The court will review your behavior in the pen and on probation/parole and decide whether you deserve to receive your right to vote back or whether you have some additional re-civilizing to do.