No cure for US elections from the right-wing

[vox]

"Justice Department attorneys continue to limit the scope of an investigation that should be examining the collapse of voting rights protections in all Florida counties, from Palm Beach in the south to Duval in the north and Gadsden in the west--where as many as one in eight ballots cast by minority voters was discarded. In addition, Jeb Bush and the Florida legislature continue to reject needed reforms and to stall the allocation of sufficient funds to bring voting machinery in predominantly minority precincts up to par with equipment in predominantly white precincts. And the US House and Senate remain deadlocked over legislation that would promote and fund reforms in other states--like Illinois, which had a higher rate of ballot spoilage than Florida. Until the Justice Department and state and federal legislators get serious about making real reforms, the 2002 and 2004 elections won't be any more fair or functional than the flawed election of 2000."

Full Editorial (http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20020617&s=editors)

But really, who expected justice from this particular "Justice" Department? Who expected Florida to do anything? After all, the governor of Florida is a Bush (http://www.motherjones.com/news_wire/bushboys.html), which speaks for itself.

Maybe we should take Castro up on his offer to send election monitors to Florida to insure a fair election there. It's pretty obvious that the Bush's and their Republican cronies aren't interested in it.

vox

[RedSovietCCCP]

Would you have been saying this if gore got elected???? Both democrats and republicans are my enemy. It would have been a mistake if gore got into office also. It seems to me people telt more for democrats on this site. Both partys are part of a capitalist sociaty and no party is better than the other!!!! The green party makes me sick!!! Nader is a fucking jack ass.

[vox]

"Would you have been saying this if gore got elected???? Both democrats and republicans are my enemy. It would have been a mistake if gore got into office also. It seems to me people telt more for democrats on this site. Both partys are part of a capitalist sociaty and no party is better than the other!!!! The green party makes me sick!!! Nader is a fucking jack ass."

Oh golly! You're so HARDCORE!!! I'm so glad you responded with your completely irrelevent post that has absolutely NOTHING AT ALL to do with what I wrote.

Perhaps you can tell the blacks in Florida that it's okay for them to be disenfranchised because, hey, Democrats and Republicans are the same.

In the meantime, you can fuck right off.

vox

[Reuben]

I heard some `American guy on the Radio lt night, jeff palace, who has recently brought out a book and seems to have evidence that in florida black voters were systematically tagged as fellons so thaat they could not vote, becqause 93 per cent would vote democrat.


ANy possiblitiy tht this happened

[vox]

More than a possibility, a probability.

Here's a summary of an investigation into the matter (http://www.commondreams.org/news2001/0412-02.htm) from "The Nation," and a link to the full investigation.

Here's an article from Gregory Palast's site (http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=27&row=1) that has a lot of good info in it.

Don't expect any action from the Bush administration any time soon, though.

vox

[RedSovietCCCP]

Vox, all I was saying is that I don't care how the elections went and both partys are all part of a bourgeois society and I would have not voted for any of them!!!! And I dont give a shit that blacks where disenfrachised or if it was whites being disenfrachised, they wern't voting for a socialist candidate so I don't give a fuck!!!!! And vox you are hardcore for telling me TO FUCK RIGHT OFF. Grow up jackass!!!

[Michael De Panama]

Ah. It's great to have you back, Vox.