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

• Florida Election Files Feared Lost

• Florida Ignores Court Ruling During Voter Purges

• Bush's fifth ace: A crooked Panhandle

• Records issue pits Butterworth against Harris

• Florida Democrats prepare to subpoena records

• Miami Vices

• House Republicans Pressed Pentagon for E-Mail Addresses of Sailors

• Panel Wants Probe of 2000 Elections

• Lake County FL erred by tossing write-ins

• Timely but Tossed Votes Were Slow to Get to the Ballot Box

• Florida Democrats Call On Katherine Harris To Resign

• Purging system gets a (no) vote

• 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  This article has been archived by the paper.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

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