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Monday, August 04, 2003 Stolen - the Presidency Working for Change is featuring investigative reporter Greg Palast, who broke the story back in 2000 about the theft of the presidential election by Bush and his Republican cronies. This may seem like old news, but it's not. A lot of the details about this situation are still generally unknown due to the fact that the only news organizations that were actually doing quality reporting on it were from overseas. The American news media didn't want to touch the stuff. But Greg Palast, working for the BBC, dug up all the messy dirt on the election. Working for Change is featuring serialized excerpts from his latest book, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy on their website. I highly recommend checking out the exceprts, if not the book itself. Here's a little taste: Here’s how it worked: Mostly, the [CD-ROM] disks contain data on Florida citizens—57,700 of them. In the months leading up to the November 2000 balloting, Florida Secretary of State Harris, in coordination with Governor Jeb Bush, ordered local elections supervisors to purge these 57,700 from voter registries. In Harris’s computers, they are named as felons who have no right to vote in Florida. Thomas Cooper is on the list: criminal scum, bad guy, felon, attempted voter. The Harris hit list says Cooper was convicted of a felony on January 30, 2007. 2007? You may suspect something’s wrong with the list. You’d be right. At least 90.2 percent of those on this “scrub” list, targeted to lose their civil rights, are innocent. Notably, over half—about 54 percent—are Black and Hispanic voters. Overwhelmingly, it is a list of Democrats. There's much, much more and it only gets more insidious. And for those of you who would rather have a video version, check out the remarkable documentary Unprecedented. It'll make you angry, but it's a good kind of angry, cause you can do something about it. posted by chris at 9:34 PM   ------------------

    

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