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Republicans Plan Voter Challenges in Florida
An anonymous reader writes "Greg Palast, the journalist who first reported on the initial Florida voter scandal (Warning large PDF), thinks he's found a new threat for this election, reported here at the BBC. He did uncover some interesting shenanigans last time, is this significant, or is he just fishing this time?"
The article is somewhat brief, especially compared to the original story, you can watch the TV report on the Newsnight pages.
What's interesting about this story is the way the it was uncovered. The "secret" email was only revealed because of the stupidity of the sender. Instead of sending it to an email address at the real bush campaign website, it was sent to georgewbush.org, an anti-bush website. georgewbush.org decided to post all email in their catch-all to in what they call the "dead letter office."
http://www.georgewbush.org/deadletteroffice/
Look for an e-mail with the subject "caging"
http://almostsmart.com
Just so I don't get flamed I just found out what they meant by caging. It's a direct mailling term meaing "The process of receiving, processing, and reporting the mailing results".
Did you pull this completely out of your ass?
First of all, Florida Hispanics tend to register white. The list was 95% false positives, heavily leaning black and Democrat.
Secondly, Choicepoint warned the Secratary of State, in writing, that there would be a large number of false positives. The Govenor's office wrote back with instructions to proceed saying they wanted it to be broad.
The requirements for matching was last name and first four letters of the first name and a date range on the birthdate of a year. They ignored suffixes, middle names, middle initials, gender, etc. They told felons who had their rights restored in other states that they had to plead for clemency from the Govenor's office, in violation of Florida state law. A 2002 law required election supervisors to use this list. This year they wouldn't let anyone see the list and when the media sued for access and won, they dropped it. This year's list had another high percentage of false positives, was largely black and had no hispanics.
The 2000 election was stolen. Greg Palast's evidence has been corraborated by two investigations. People should have gone to jail over the 2000 election, but with the GOP in control of the state executives office and the state legislature, as well as the Federal legislative and executive branches, I don't expect anything to happen.
Arrogance is Confidence which lacks integrity. -- me
Well then, since there are mountains of evidence the he's ignored that challenge his claims, where are they?
Its one thing to say something. Its another to produce evidence and logical reasonings, to back up said comments. Palast, apparently, does both.
Also, because someone is a "hater", does this mean that he's immediately barred from saying anything? Are the only people that are legitimate to expose scandals and cover-ups the ones that love the people their exposing?
If someone finds out all the bad stuff about the republicans, and someone finds out all the bad stuff about the democrats, isn't that GOOD?
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
On the subject on disingenuous, you will no doubt be aware that the overwhelming verdict in the rest of the media was that the Hutton report was an establishment whitewash. Even many of the tabloids who usually hate the BBC and take any chance to bash it came down on the BBC side. For an American view on the UK response to Hutton see CNN.
The reality is that the BBC deservedly has one of the best (if not the best) reputations for high quality and balanced journalism on the planet.