-Caveat Lector- WJPBR Email News List [EMAIL PROTECTED] Peace at any cost is a Prelude to War! ELECTION 2000, Day 37 Jackson guilty of 'Haiti crimes'? Miami election official insists he printed info in Creole for boat people ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- By Paul Sperry � 2000 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- Despite Rev. Jesse Jackson's charges that Haitian voters were "disenfranchised" in Miami-Dade County because of language barriers at polls, a local elections official says the county increased spending on translators and bilingual printing to aid the immigrants. Jackson on Monday decried what he calls a "scheme to disenfranchise Haitian survivors who could not get language support who speak Creole." But Miami-Dade's assistant supervisor of elections says he published sample ballots in Creole, the native language of Haiti, in local newspapers. The official, John Clouser, says he also assigned Creole-speaking interpreters at precincts in Haitian communities and posted signs in Creole at polling places. In addition, Clouser, a Democrat, says he printed voter information and instructions in Creole. "How do I know this? Because I'm paying for it, bubba. No, let me correct that -- you're paying for it. Taxpayers are paying for it," Clouser told WorldNetDaily. Jackson and other black leaders argue that allegedly hundreds of Haitian voters who wanted to vote for Al Gore couldn't because they weren't able to read the official ballot questions, which were printed only in English and Spanish. According to a complaint that the NAACP sent to the Justice Department, Haitians in Miami-Dade who weren't given questions in Creole were allegedly denied their civil rights. Jackson on Monday suggested that President-elect George W. Bush doesn't care about Haitian citizens. "You can't say to the Haitian boat people, 'Well, you can't read and write well, but tough, you should go to Yale, like I did,'" Jackson said. "That's not the spirit of democracy." But Jackson and the NAACP did not protest the county's lack of Creole ballots in the 1996 presidential election, or the elections before that. The vendor who contracts with Miami-Dade to print the voting booklets listing the questions says they've always been printed in English or English and Spanish, but never in Creole. "We've never done that," said Randy Stiles, a 12-year production manager at the Dallas plant that prints the booklets and punch-card ballots used by the county. The plant is owned by Omaha, Neb.-based Election Systems & Software Inc. *COPYRIGHT NOTICE** In accordance with Title 17 U. S. C. Section 107, any copyrighted work in this message is distributed under fair use without profit or payment to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for nonprofit research and educational purposes only.[Ref. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml ] Want to be on our lists? Write at [EMAIL PROTECTED] for a menu of our lists! <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are unwelcomed. Substance�not soap-boxing�please! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'�with its many half-truths, mis- directions and outright frauds�is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRLgives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html <A HREF="http://peach.ease.lsoft.com/archives/ctrl.html">Archives of [EMAIL PROTECTED]</A> http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ <A HREF="http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/">ctrl</A> ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
