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The Coup
- How
did this happen?
When your candidate wins the popular vote, nearly wins the Electoral College vote, loses in the pivotal state by eight votes per county out of six million cast under highly controversial circumstances, and a recount is stopped by the US Supreme Court... Well, you don't forget something like that, and I haven't. - Gore camp demands FBI inquiry
Details 17,000 ballot papers in the Miami area had been tampered with in what they described as "organised corruption". THE FBI is being asked to investigate how thousands of mainly black supporters of Al Gore were given ballot papers that had allegedly already been marked for rival candidates.
The only computerized record of how Palm Beach County voted in the contested presidential election may have been destroyed, raising fears that the pivotal data may never be re-examined. The only computerized record of how Palm Beach County voted in the contested presidential election may have been destroyed, raising fears that the pivotal data may never be re-examined.
Florida research consultant Deb Cupples examines how Florida's Division of Elections failed to provide accurate and timely guidance to county canvassing boards. Was information withheld to disenfranchise as many presumed Democratic voters as possible?
Any tampering in the Bush Gore contest probably took place on Election Night, We undertook to do a statistical study that might highlight where such cheating could have taken place.
Harris' office reformatted computer drives used for recount information. Attorney General advises Secretary of State that all computer records on state computers are public records unless the legislature exempts them.
Enquiring Demos want to know: Why was the Bush war room in Katherine Harris' office? And what about Jeb Bush's involvement? The White House press corps officially doesn't care.
A jury found that infamous ex-mayor of Miami, Xavier Suarez and his staff did engage in vote fraud, specifically tampering with 5,000 absentee ballots. He sits on the executive committee of the Miami-Dade Republican party and was specifically involved this year in helping get out the Republican absentee vote.
Republicans used congressional representative to obtain service members' email addresses to verify (and thus get counted) disqualified absentee ballots.
Hey DoJ: Investigate the coup!
Details election errors in Lake County, including not counting write-in votes and not providing necessary voting supplies.
Details mail and courier delays that cost voters their vote.
After evidence revealed that Katherine Harris intentionally misled Floridians about the illegal use of her office for the Bush campaign, Florida Democratic Party Chairman Bob Poe called for Katherine Harris' resignation
Harriet M. Ludwig, Gainesville Sun, 10 June 2001
- Botched
Name Purge Denied Some the Right to Vote
Robert E. Pierre, Washington Post, 31 May 2001 - Atlanta-based
company says errors in felon purge not its fault
Melanie Eversley, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 28 May 2001 - Also in the Arizona Republic
- Nation
Investigation Reveals Florida Officials Shut Out Tens of Thousands
of Black Voters on Election Day
press release, CommonDreams, 12 April 2001 - Firm says Florida was warned about
voters being denied
Melanie Eversley, Palm Beach Post-Cox News Service, 1 April 2001
This article has been archived by the paper. - Florida
Policy on Out-of-State Ex-Felons' Voting Rights
David Ruppe, ABCNews, 26 March 2001 - Purge
of 'felons' on voter list under fire
Linda Kleindienst, Orlando Sentinel, 23 February 2001 - Florida's
'Disappeared Voters': Disfranchised by the GOP
Gregory Palast, The Nation, 5 February 2001 - Inquiry
into new claims of poll abuses in Florida
Julian Borger and Gregory Palast, Guardian (UK), 17 February 2001 - Florida net too wide in purge of voter rolls
- Official: Florida disenfranchised minority voters
- A
Racial Gap in Voided Votes
Precinct Analysis Finds Stark Inequity in Polling Problems - Racial
divide
Bush won because hundreds of African-Americans in Florida weren't allowed to vote. Now he's got to live with the consequences. - Fla.
voters wrongly cut from rolls
Felon purge may have affected outcome of 2000 presidential race - Selection
2000 for kids - So the veep guy had to give up while the rich
kid told the people that everybody had to like him now because he
was the boss and if they didn't like him they would be to blame for
everything he did wrong. And the moral is.....
.........Majority Loses (only in America) - A disgrace in Florida - The project manager of DBT, Marlene Thorogood, was apparently annoyed that people took umbrage at mistakenly being labeled felons and barred from voting. "There are just some people that feel when you mess with 'their right to vote,' you're messing with their life," Thorogood wrote in an e-mail.
- Thousands of felons voted despite purge - While DBT found thousands of felons on the rolls, the company also identified thousands of innocent voters as "possible" or "probable" felons, causing chaos in the weeks before Election Day and leading to the disenfranchisement of scores of voters. However, because of flaws in the data, it's possible that a few of the 5,643 felons The Post found aren't felons at all. In rare cases, someone could have the exact name, birth date and race as a felon. And in some cases, names of people convicted only of misdemeanors made their way onto FDLE's list of felons.
- Judge's bad judgment - At the very least, Sauls should have sought an opinion from the Florida Supreme Court's Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee before agreeing to share FreeRepublic's applause with a recent litigant in any case, let alone one of such enormous significance.
- Is Judge Sauls in violation of the Florida Code of Judicial Conduct? - Has Leon County Circuit Court Judge N. Sanders Sauls violated Florida's Code of Judicial Conduct by agreeing to speak at the June gathering of the rabidly partisan Free Republic in South Carolina? Media Whores Online (MWO) thinks so and is urging Floridians to file complaints with the Florida Judicial Qualifications Commission, citing "specifically Canon 2: A Judge Shall Avoid Impropriety and the Appearance of Impropriety in all of the Judge's Activities; and Canon 7: A Judge or Candidate for Judicial Office Shall Refrain from Inappropriate Political Activity."
- An Unpaid Tab in Florida: Bush spent $8 million, but hasn’t settled with his lawyers - "The situation, NEWSWEEK has learned, has gotten increasingly sticky. While lawyers complain privately about foot dragging (Richard says he’s not among them), Bush advisers are griping about “astronomical” bills—including one from a litigator who charged for more than 24 hours of work in a single day."
- An unpaid tab in Florida: Bush spent $8 million, but hasn’t settled with his lawyers - yep, we sure as shootin' oughta let this deadbeat handle our nation's budget: skyhigh deficits, here we come!
- Bush raising money to pay lawyers fees from Florida recount - "We're all kind of waiting . . . to see whether we get paid or not"
- Are Florida's Black Voters Paranoid - or Disenfranchised? - Nightline Should Go Back and Get the REAL Story
- Red Flags In Florida - A one-stop handy reference guide to the Coup
- How the GOP Gamed the System in Florida - "But no future remedy can undo what happened in 2000, only a portion of which has been revealed through the hearing, the suit and media reports. 'They done got us,' said civil rights veteran Elmore Bryant of Marianna, Florida, referring to the GOP-mandated purge of voter rolls. 'They had themselves a game and we had no game. The old leaders in the '60s wouldn't have let this happen. We woulda had us a game too, but we didn't. They done got us good.'"
- Winning by Intimidation - Remember the Republican mob of thugs that stopped the recount? "It's getting harder and harder to believe one's eyes and ears as George Bush, James Baker and the Republicans grow ever more brazen in their effort to seize the presidency with or without a lawful mandate. As amazing as this sounds, it is distinctly possible that the 2000 election will be decided by a bunch of riotous thugs, operating under the direct control of the Republican Party."
- Closed polls cause confusion, outrage for McCain -- - Was the South Carolina primary a rehearsal for Florida?
- Civil
Rights Commission Findings
- ELECTION
2000
- Civil
Rights Commission Findings2
- FLORIDA'S GOP JILTING HARRIS - OFFICIAL AT CENTER OF ELECTION FLAP SEEN AS LIABILITY - "People in this town are backing away from her," said a key GOP aide in Tallahassee. "The Republican Party can't say it, but there are certainly elected Republicans who would rather not be in the public spotlight with her. It's unwise politically." ... "I don't think I assisted" [in the selection of Bush], Harris said later. "I think I just did my job."
- That
Son of a Bush!!!
- TrimnBush
- "Debategate"
Indictment: Former Bush Media Consultant Charged With Mailing Secret
Debate Material
- 554
Law Professors Say
- Cruella
booed in Florida - "Katherine Harris, Florida's Secretary
of State, who was a central figure during the disputed presidential
election, was booed lustily by the 19,150 at Gulfstream on Sunday
as she presented the trophy following the Rampart Handicap. 'I've
never been booed in my life,' Harris told reporters in the winner's
circle."
- Tapper:
Did Bush camp encourage military personnel to vote after Election
Day? - Salon, March 5
- Votescam
1988: The first time America's votes got Bushwacked - "the
prescription for the covert stealing of America."
- Salon
on what would've been "the right thing to do" (count
the votes)
- How
Far Will Bush Go to Win the Election? By Wm Ruha on Democrats.com,
written before the coup d'etat was a fait accompli.
- More
from The Guardian on Bush Family deals
- How
the Grinch Stole America, Salman Rushdie Thursday January 4, 2001,
The Guardian
- "Inauguration
will be a sham" Lori Price's Letter to the Hartford Courant--scroll
down to find
- Bush
Boyz Stole the Vote
- Right-Wing
Coup That Shames America by Will Hutton, The Guardian: Observer
Comment
- 2
Florida Counties Show Election Day's Inequities - Action is far
from assured. After this legislative session, warned Smith, the former
attorney general and task force co-chairman, "everybody will
go back to sleep and election reform will no longer have anybody's
attention."
- US
Commission on Civil Rights charges "voter disenfranchisement...
at heart" of Bush victory in Florida
- Red
Rock Eater Digest: Wrapping Up the Election
- GOP Won By Planting Seeds of Deception, Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
- History of Systematic Character Assassination
of Gore:
A Sustained G.O.P. Push to Mock Gore's Image
RRE - The US presidential election campaign has descended into lunacy.
RRE - That Al Gore claimed to have invented the Internet has got to be the most successful flat-out lie since, well, the last one. I swear that I see it repeated in the media at least once a day.
The Death of Liberal Bias (Part Three)
We Bid Fond Adieu to The Buzz
Our current howler (part II): Love that Story!
Our current howler (part IV): Farm team
Our current howler (part III): One that did matter
Our current howler (part IV): Dotting his i’s
Our current howler (part I): Gong show!
And another....
Good politics, bad journalism - Reporters seized on stories about Al Gore the liar without checking their facts. Now the Bush campaign is cashing in.
Truth Be Told -- George W. Bush lies.
Gore, Gore and More Gore
Gore Media Coverage -- Playing Hardball - You don't have to be a yellow-dog Democrat to wonder just what's been going on with the coverage of Al Gore ever since he declared for the presidency.
VOTERS UNMOVED BY MEDIA CHARACTERIZATIONS OF BUSH AND GORE
Networks Defy Convention-al Wisdom - Study Finds Media Boost Bush; TV News Election Coverage Reverses Previous Patterns
Will Pseudo-Scandals Decide the Election? - Ballot
cost Gore over 6000 votes... and Racicot and Co. couldn't care
less
- US
networks, Congress whitewash media Was VNS wrong in its projections?
- Top
10 Lies of Election 2000
- How
Al Gore lost the presidency in 3 parts
- A
Wild Ride Into Uncharted Territory - The Inside Story of America's
Closest Election
- Florida
2000: The lost vote
- Lake
County trashed legally marked votes
- Small
counties wasted more than 1,700 votes
- A
'Queen' Kept Clock Running - Harris and Allies Stalled Recounts,
And Then Ran Into Fla. High Court
- For
Bush Camp, Some Momentum From a Memo - More from Post series
- For
Gore, Reasons to Hope Dwindled - More from Post series
- In
a Dark Hour, a Last-Minute Reprieve - More from Post series
- Anxious
Moments in the Final Stretch - More from Post series
- Commission
Looking Into Florida Vote Irregularities --Asked how he felt when
told his civil rights had been revoked, Whiting said, "I reflected
on African-American history, so it didn’t feel good. I was sling-shotted
into slavery, that's how I felt."
- Coup 2K by John Dee This is a must read! From Nettime.org, very well documented
- The
Unelected President, by Harvey Wasserman
- Excerpts
From Coup d'Etat: A Practical Handbook -by Edward Luttwak
- A
blacklist burning for Bush The more you look the more disbarred
and 'disappeared' Gore voters you find. You'd almost think it was
deliberate Gregory Palast
- Florida's
flawed "voter-cleansing" program, by Palast - Secretary
of State Katherine Harris hired a firm to vet the rolls for felons,
but that may have wrongly kept thousands, particularly blacks, from
casting ballots.
- DID
FLORIDA VOTE PURGE VEEP LIE UNDER OATH ABOUT PROVIDING RACIAL
INFO ? (scroll down the page for this article.)
- Democrats'
Bipartisan Folly In marked contrast to the continuing Republican
investigations of President Clinton, the Democrats eight years ago
cooperated with Republicans in shutting down substantive inquiries
that implicated President George H.W. Bush in a variety of geopolitical
scandals
- Lieberman
calls himself VP of a government in exile
- .Florida's
'Disappeared Voters': Disfranchised by the GOP
- Best
Democracy money can buy Greg Palast
- Still
A Thief Why the media recounts in Florida don't change a thing
- An
excellent summary of the circumstances that combined in the coup
at:
- two stories on Florida recount (read
both pages)
Revisited (from Jan 28)
Revisited from Nov 30: "Counterpunch"
- Democrats.com
Exclusive: Interview with Mary Frances Berry, Chair of the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights
- National
Strike One --by Estrella Holtzknecht/Berosini
- Harris
Changed the Law
- GOP Opens Battle for W.'s Legitimacy
