Election Fraud - Connect The Dots
May 30, 2002
by Chris Bennington
Dear BuzzFlash,
I guess the administration wasn't serious about civil and voting rights after all. Following last week's ballyhoo about filing civil rights litigation to correct voting problems which arose during the Florida election brouhaha, the Bush Department of Justice has -- not surprisingly -- decided that there was no significant problem after all.
But the DOJ -- which is supposed to be apolitical -- felt it necessary to announce that the minor problems which did occur did not affect the election. Why?
http://www.sptimes.com/2002/05/29/Worldandnation/
US_backs_off_election.shtml
This is classic Talibush. An issue arises. They announce plans to address the issue. They then quietly back off and claim victory.
I guess none of the attorneys in the DOJ's civil rights division can figure out how to find Greg Palast's articles on the internet. Why isn't the DOJ investigating the improper "scrubbing" of 50,000 voters from the Florida voter rolls?
Could it be because the Ashcroft DOJ has HIRED ONE OF THE GUYS WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PURGE?! The Washington Post reported in March about the DOJ's civil rights division:
"But concern over the changes has spread among advocacy groups and Democrats. On Wednesday, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) sent a letter to Ashcroft, asking questions about how the division is being run.
"'You stated repeatedly at your confirmation hearing that it is an Attorney General's duty to enforce the law as written, regardless of his or her personal beliefs,' Leahy wrote. But the 'considerable changes in the upper echelons of the Department's career ranks raise concerns about the reasons for the changes and their effect on the Department's important mission.'
"In addition to the meetings with defendants' attorneys and the Mississippi redistricting case, career lawyers, congressional sources and civil rights groups have taken issue with the hiring of two conservative operatives as career lawyers and the reassignment of two top career officials in the Employment Litigation Section.
"Of the two political operatives hired, one is a former employee of the Voting Integrity Project, which ran the disputed purging of Florida voter rolls of alleged felons during the 2000 election, and the other is a former senior counsel for the Center for Equal Opportunity, an organization that has been sharply critical of preferential affirmative action policies. They will be part of a voting-rights task force Ashcroft announced last year, to be headed by a political appointee."
How many dots do people need before they start filling in the picture about the election?
Let's review the bidding.
- Florida's secretary of state is Bush's campaign manager, and its governor is his brother.
- The secretary of state hires a company to eliminate all "felons" from the voter rolls. The company hired to do the job recommends cross-checking the names to insure accuracy, but the secretary refuses.
- More than 50,000 people are removed from the rolls. The vast majority of those removals are improper. The vast majority of those removed are black and Democratic.
- The poor black and Democratic areas of Florida have older, less reliable voting machines. And there are over 11,000 complaints of people being turned away and not allowed to vote.
- Republican operatives in several counties illegally "correct" hundreds of Republican requests for absentee ballots.
- The secretary/campaign manager announces that Bush "wins" Florida by 500 votes.
- The Civil Rights Commission finds evidence of significant rights violations.
- EVERY full recount of all legal votes in Florida finds that Gore was, in fact, the winner -- without even getting to the issues of butterfly ballots, scrubbed voter rolls, late absentee votes, etc.
- The Bush DOJ announces lawsuits against three Florida counties to "correct" problems so they won't happen again. There is no mention of the "scrubbed" voter rolls.
- One of the officials in the Civil Rights division of the DOJ is one of the people responsible for the "scrubbing" of the Florida voter rolls.
- A week later, the same DOJ official who trumpeted the lawsuits quietly announces that there weren't any problems after all and that Bush was the rightful winner.
- The secretary of state is running for a seat in a closely divided Congress. The (putative) president's brother faces a tough reelection contest. A voting scandal involving that brother and secretary of state would presumably hurt their election chances.
How can anyone look at this and not be sickened by the Bushinistas?
Chris
Bennington
Moorpark, CA
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