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Carter says Florida Voting Still Not Fair

Posted by michael on from the anybody-wanna-peanut? dept.

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."

3 of 191 comments (clear)

  1. Re:waahhhh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative
    the felons can't vote, cry me a river.
    Perhaps you've forgotten that in 2000, thousands of people who were not felons, but whose names were similar to those of convicted felons, were rejected from the polls. The database is horribly mismanaged, with negligence as the best case scenario, and intentional tampering quite possible.
  2. Re:And in Venezuela there were fair elections??? by sybert · · Score: 2, Informative
    Chavez rigged the election in Venezuela by rigging the random number generator used to randomly select which machines to audit.
    In choosing which polling stations would be audited, the CNE (Venezuelan electoral council) refused to use the random number generator recommended by the Carter Center. Instead, the CNE insisted on its own program, run on its own computer.
    This allowed Chavez to rig many electronic voting machines knowing that they would not be audited.
  3. Re:Carter's comments are totally partisan! by DAldredge · · Score: 2, Informative

    How is this? See my other posts in this discussion for the URL.

    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.''