While stories of Florida's hanging and dimpled chads have covered news
pages since Election Day, a new Nation investigation reveals that Florida
elections officials-including Secretary of State Katherine
Harris-engineered an electoral system that was stacked against black
voters from the start and was in place well before the election.
According to the investigation by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John
Lantigua in the April 30 issue of The Nation, Florida's black
community-bitterly at odds with Jeb Bush-mounted a voter registration
drive that increased black voter turnout in November by an astounding 65
percent. In what many in the black community saw as a direct response to
their efforts, the state took steps that led to the wrongful
disenfranchisement of many current voters and failed to make appropriate
preparations to accommodate the huge numbers of new black voters that had
registered since the last state election.
Read this explosive special report in its entirety at:
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20010430&s=lantigua
This is the mob of "angry Florida citizens" who stormed the Miami-Dade County, FL canvassing board & demanded that the recounting be stopped. As you can plainly see by their job positions & place of residence, they are not just your average Florida citizen after all- they are Republican employees who were paid, who came from all over the US for the specific purpose of shutting down the recounting in Florida, and who deceived the American public.
