posted on November 12, 2000 11:00:21 PM new
According to Daniel McGrory, a London Times reporter, "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. Yesterday Democrat officials were examining claims that up to 17,000 ballot papers in the Miami area had been tampered with in what they described as “organised corruption”. Lawyers from across the United States descended on Miami and were busy taking statements from those complaining that they had been cheated or intimidated out of voting for Mr Gore. A senior Democrat official in Miami, who has hired a team of
20 investigators to carry out an inquiry, told The Times: “Until now in Florida, we have been arguing foul-ups, human error and stupidity. But this is deliberate corruption to spoil votes for Gore and that must be a matter for the FBI.
“We don’t want to be seen as playing the race card here, but the areas where this happened are in poorer precincts, which are predominantly black areas that would be
expected to vote almost unanimously for Vice-President Gore. We are not accusing the Republican Party or any other ethnic groups for being behind this. All we are saying is the vote was corrupted. There are just too many double-punched papers.” Jewish leaders in staunch Democrat areas of the city claimed that they, too, had evidence of voting slips being marked before they reached polling stations in areas populated by retired Jewish couples. At a rally in a Miami synagogue, Lisa Versaci, Florida director of People for the American Way, said: “There can be no innocent explanation for a pre-punched ballot sheet.” --London Times, 11/13/00
SIDEBAR: NOTE FROM A MIAMI BUSH WATCHER "Florida has a loooooooong history of vote tampering -- specifically double punching. This is most prevelant in Miami-Dade County....Double punching is as old as the Castro regime....Someone...saw election suprevisors handing out pre-punched ballots -- ballots with one or more holes already
punched. When the voters -- mostly spanish-speaking poor -- asked about the hole already punched in their ballots, they were told that it was fine, don't worry about it. Here's the thing. There are 7900 disqualified ballots because of double punching in Broward county, where 560K votes were cast -- but 18000 disqualified double punched ballots in Dade where about 640K votes were cast and 19000 disqualified votes in Palm Beach, where about 400K votes were cast. Strange? I think more than strange." [We told the person to call 1-800-579-8871 and report the allegations.]
BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE... The "presidential election has yet to be decided, and it seems Florida is the straw that will break the electoral camel’s back....There are...a number of allegations regarding voting irregularities in several counties in the Sunshine State. It seems, however, that Florida’s history of voter fraud is just as storied as the Bush political legacy.
The most famous -- or infamous -- case involves the now derided ex-mayor of Miami, Xavier Suarez, whose last election in 1997 was overturned because of charges of voter fraud and falsification of records. And Suarez's relevance might not be limited to past election irregularities....
What is most stunning, though, is that Suarez now sits on the executive committee of the Miami-Dade Republican party and was specifically involved this year in helping get out the Republican vote. Suarez, who told FEED that he is working to become the committee’s chairman, said that leading up to last night’s election he "helped fill out absentee ballot forms and enlist Republican absentee voters in Miami-Dade county." ...Kendall Coffey, lead attorney in the original Suarez suit, said, "He said that?" Coffey, a recognized expert in absentee ballot law,...went on to say that Suarez’s participation in any part of enlisting absentee ballots troubled him deeply.
"Suarez was found to have taken part in systematic and massive absentee ballot fraud. He was found to have done significantly better in absentee balloting than in the general vote." He went on to say that since that time, while some improvements have been made, "no one watchdogs absentee balloting, other than the campaigns themselves. The election commission has no authority to oversee the distribution of coordination of absentee ballots until they are counted.These ballots are going to decide the outcome of the closest race in a generation and,
given Suarez’s and this state’s murky history with regard to absentee balloting, this calls for meticulous and vigorous investigation." --FEED snippet
posted on November 13, 2000 02:40:37 AM new
krs, The CIA seems to be starting their own investigation, from this report I found.
"According to reporter Joe King it appears that the conspiracy on the election has taken even further sinister twist. Several voters have come forward alleging they were given incorrect ballots. Stories of ballots offering a choice between Pepsi Cola, Coca Cola, and Royal Crown Cola have surfaced in several voting precincts. One confused voter stated, "I thought I was supposed to select the candidate's favorite soft drink." Another equally confused citizen wanted to know if he'd be getting paid for his endorsement of Pepsi. Representatives of Florida have issued a call for the C.I.A. (Cola Investigating Association) to pursue all leads in this report of ballot irregularities."
posted on November 13, 2000 05:28:46 AM new
“We don’t want to be seen as playing the race card here, but the areas where this
happened are in poorer precincts, which are predominantly black areas that would be
expected to vote almost unanimously for Vice-President Gore."
Gore's campaign play the race card? Oh, my goodness. Heaven forfend.
