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57 Red Flags -- Proof Bush Did Not Win the Popular Vote in Florida
Irregularities, strategic voting hindrances, illegal ballots,
intimidation, collusion, obstruction... Nice way to be a "uniter, not a divider"!
What's going on? There are so many anomalies now that the probability of
simple coincidence or bad luck is dwindling down to nothing.
On Election Day, November 7, some strange things happened in Florida.
Let's put the puzzle pieces together.
Early Calls
1) Major pre-election polls had Gore leading in Florida the night of
Nov. 6.
(http://www.zogby.com/features/featuredtables.dbm?ID=30#Anchor-Florid-922)
(http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20001106/ts/election_leadall_dc_11.html)
2) On Election Day, November 7, Voter News Service correctly predicted
through exit polls that matched with early results that Gore won the
state of Florida by a safe margin of 5%. At 7:53PM VNS issued the
bulletin: FLORIDA PRESIDENT RACE -- GORE WINS. The networks immediately
called the state for Gore.
(http://www.herald.com/content/tue/business/florida/digdocs/045599.htm)
3) A mortified Jeb Bush, Governor of Florida, shortly thereafter left
his family in Austin to make some calls. Then George W., after
consulting with his advisors including his brother Jeb, called reporters
to his hotel suite and told them the networks had made a mistake in
calling Florida. "I'm upbeat," he said. At 10:13PM the networks recalled
the state and put it back into the "too close to call" column.
(http://www.herald.com/content/tue/business/florida/digdocs/045599.htm)
4) At 2:18 AM the networks began declaring George W. Bush the president.
They had done so after Fox News called Florida. Who made the decision to
incorrectly call Florida for Bush over at Fox, thereby creating the
lasting myth that Bush won? John Ellis, who also happens to be George W.
Bush's first cousin.
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/15/ellis/index.html)
Irregularities -- Palm Beach County
5) An illegal ballot design (the infamous "butterfly ballot") confused
many residents of Palm Beach County into undervoting, overvoting, or
accidentally voting for Pat Buchanan. Regarding the spin about how it's
because they are stupid old people: voters started complaining about
this at 7:05 AM on Election Day. DNC HQ calls were jammed due to the
high volume of calls. Rep. Robert Wexler, the local Congressional
Representative, received a deluge of calls, and on Election Day, even VP
Candidate Joseph Lieberman called the local office to see what was going
on down there. The elections supervisor issued a warning midway through
the day warning people of the confusion.
(http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-Florida-Ballot-Confusion.html)
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/09/lapore/index.html)
(http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000123102,00.html)
6) The odds that all those Palm Beach County residents voted for
Buchanan intentionally rather than Gore is approximately a trillion to
one. Statistical models bear this out when you compare them to the
Buchanan vote in other counties. Looking at any graph you see a huge,
disproportionate spike in Buchanan votes. Pat Buchanan himself agrees
that the majority of these votes were not cast for him.
(http://www.bestbookmarks.com/election) (http://madison.hss.cmu.edu/)
7) Many Palm Beach county voters who mis-voted but caught it immediately
and asked for another ballot were told they could not have another
ballot by poll workers, in violation of county rules. (NPR, 11/10/00)
8) Socialist Party candidate David McReynolds received abnormally high
vote totals in Palm Beach County. His name appears directly below
Buchanan's name on the butterfly ballot, in a position that could
potentially draw erroneous votes from Democratic votes. McReynolds
received 302 votes in PBC. Statewide, in the other 66 counties, he
received 316 votes combined. McReynolds got virtually as many votes in
Palm Beach County as he did in the entire rest of the state of
Florida...nearly 50% of the statewide total! (http://www.bestbookmarks.com/election)
9) After the handcounts were completed, after using a stricter standard
than neighboring Broward County, the deadline was missed by an hour or
two. Could the count have been delayed because of stall tactics used by
overzealous GOP observers?
(http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/324/nation/Democrats_accuse_GOP_of_stalling_for_time+.shtml)
Irregularities -- Miami-Dade County
10) Miami-Dade has a recent history of election fraud. In 1998, Mayor
elect Xavier Suarez was stripped of his election victory by a Florida
appeals court, reinstating Joe Carollo as mayor of Miami, finding that
massive fraud had robbed him of victory at the polls four months prior.
A trial court judge had previously ruled that the election was tainted
by ``massive, well-conceived and well-orchestrated'' absentee ballot
fraud in which even a dead man voted.
(http://www.income-online.com/content/news/NEWS/MIAMI.html)
11) The very same scandal-tainted Xavier Suarez currently sits on the
executive committee of the Miami-Dade Republican Party and was
specifically involved this year in helping to get out the Republican
vote. He admitted on November 8th that "he helped fill out absentee
ballot forms and enlist Republican absentee voters in Miami-Dade County"
(http://www.feedmag.com/templates/daily_master.php3?a_id=1389)
12) Despite tough rules put in place after the fraud-plagued Miami
mayoral election, rules designed to keep absentee ballots out of the
hands of campaign operatives, GOP workers obtained hundreds of them from
voters during their aggressive drive to increase turnout for George W.
Bush. An estimated 500 to 600 completed ballots were collected by Bush
volunteers or dropped off at campaign offices in Little Havana,
Westchester and Hialeah, according to GOP campaign officials in charge
of the absentee vote.
(http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2000/decision/018937.htm)
13) The Miami-Dade Canvassing Board decided to abruptly stop the hand
count after mobs of Republicans paid for by Bush and other GOP
operatives including that of House Majority Whip Tom DeLay stormed their
building. Rep. John Sweeney, R-N.Y., was one of the ringleaders of the
Miami fight against the recount, and after hearing the decision to
change a vote tally, Sweeney uttered a three-word order to his troops:
"Shut it down."
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A63455-2000Nov27.html)
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/miami/)
(http://www.msnbc.com/news/494375.asp)
14) Gore gained 157 more votes than Bush in the partial hand recount,
which were not added to the tally by Florida Secretary of State
Katherine Harris.
Irregularities -- Volusia County
15) On Election Night, a computer glitch showed a Socialist Party
candidate had more than 9,000 votes, while Vice President Al Gore had
minus 16,000. Those numbers were sent out over the Internet, picked up
by local newspapers and subsequently reported by major networks on
Election Night. The socialist eventually ended up with 9 votes in the
county. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/11/volusia/index.html)
16) Then, during Wednesday's recount, a forgotten ballot bag emerged
from a county poll worker's trunk. Two days later, three other ballot
bags emerged later from the county vaults without their tamper-proof
seals intact. (http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/11/volusia/index.html)
Irregularites - Seminole County
17) 2,100 incomplete GOP absentee ballot requests were selectively
fixed/altered by GOP workers invited into election offices by the GOP
elections supervisor while similar Democratic absentee ballot requests
were rejected.
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/seminole/index.html)
(http://www.campaignwatch.org/update.htm)
Irregularities -- Broward County
18) Broward County elections officials are investigating the possibility
that a handful of voting machines malfunctioned Nov. 7, now that the
hand recount has been completed.
(http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2000/decision/042862.htm)
Irregularities -- Duval County
19) A 40,000-vote error in the Duval count was one of two significant
miscalculations the Voter News Service made in Florida on November 7.
(http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/111300/met_4597444.html)
20) Many of the 27,000 presidential ballots in Duval County that were
disqualified were in predominantly black areas. Nearly 42 percent came
from four districts alone, ones that are overwhelmingly Democratic,
where voters there favored Gore by about 80%.
(http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/111300/met_4597444.html)
Irregularities -- Hillsborough County
21) VNS Reported higher than usual numbers for Bush in six precincts in
the Tampa area which was one of the reasons they pulled the state from
Gore to the undecided column on Election Day. An exit poller said that a
sampling of six precincts in Tampa included "too many Democrats". (St.
Petersburg Times; St. Petersburg, Fla.; Nov 9, 2000)
Irregularities -- Martin County
22) Martin County Supervisor of Elections Peggy S. Robbins allowed GOP
operatives to take flawed absentee ballot forms home and correct them.
Altering an absentee ballot application is a third-degree felony in
Florida. (http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/decision2000/lat_absent001202.htm)
Irregularities -- Nassau County
23) Predominately Republican Nassau County inexplicably decided to
report its original election returns rather than its recount tally to
the secretary of state for certification, thus stripping Vice President
Al Gore of 51 votes.
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/24/deutsch/index.html)
Irregularities -- Bay County
24) A Bay County resident alleged the Republican Party of Florida used
"unlawful and heavy-handed actions" to encourage people to vote by
absentee ballot. The GOP apparently used the state seal, in violation of
state law, on letters urging voters to seek absentee ballots.
(http://www.newsherald.com/articles/2000/11/14/lo111400g.htm) (St.
Petersburg Times, Nov 30, 2000)
Irregularities -- Escambia County
25) A forged absentee ballot may have been part of an broader
voter-fraud scheme.
(http://www.sptimes.com/News/111000/Election2000/Forged_ballot_in_Esca.shtml)
Irregularities -- Overseas Ballots
26) Some Florida residents serving at a U.S. Air Force base in England
received two absentee ballots for this year's presidential race.
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/09/duplicate/index.html)
Irregularities - Statewide
27) The distribution of archaic voting machines were in predominately
Democratic Counties. At least another 4,942 votes would have been
registered for Gore if the punch-card and mark-sense voting machines had
been randomly distributed throughout Florida.
(http://www.dshields.net/randomvotingmachine.htm)
28) When the first machine recount was completed on Nov. 9, there were
highly non-random corrections to the vote count for Gore, but just in
the counties which were already voting heavily for Gore. Graphs showing
this discrepancy indicate that there may have been an undercount of the
votes for Gore in those counties in the initial machine count. The
re-count corrections in the Republican show a nice bell-shaped curve,
which is what you would expect if the distribution of corrections was
random, which is expected if the original count was strictly fair. The
distribution of the corrections in the Democratic is lop-sided on the
right, indicating the magnitude of corrections went heavily towards
Gore. This is NOT what you would expect if the corrections were due to
random errors, and indicates some other factor is involved which is not
random (i.e. fraud). (http://www.dshields.net/floridaelectionrecountstats.htm)
29) Hand recounts, while denounced exaustively by the Bush campaign and
the GOP, were used in certain Republican counties that favored Bush.
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/28/hand/index.html)
30) A Miami Herald analysis suggests Gore would have won Florida by
23,000 were it not for statewide irregularities.
(http://www.herald.com/content/archive/news/elect2000/decision/104268.htm)
Voter Intimidation and Jim (Jeb) Crow
31) Black votes statewide have been disproportionally tossed, in some
county precincts in Duval County the ratio is as high as one in three.
(http://www.msnbc.com/news/497956.asp#BODY)
(http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/29/politics/29MACH.html)
32) A disproportionate number of rejected presidential votes in South
Florida came from African-American and Caribbean neighborhoods,
according to an analysis of election data from Broward, Miami-Dade and
Palm Beach Counties.
(http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/metro/chicago/ws/item/0,1308,46649-46819-48438,00.html)
33) A disproportionate number of black votes were tossed in Glades
County. (http://home.netcom.com/~mecowan/glades.htm)
34) Registered black college students at Bethune-Cookman College in
Daytona Beach and Tallahassee's Florida A&M University said they were
turned away from the polls even though they had signed up in fall
registration drives.
(http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000133020,00.html)
35) In Leon County, highway patrol troopers set up an unauthorized
checkpoint near a polling place in the town of Woodville
(http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000133020,00.html)
36) Many black voters were inexplicably not on the voter lists at the
polling locations. (http://www.nytimes.com/2000/11/30/politics/30BLAC.html)
37) Many reports of voter intimidation surfaced in Hillsboro County.
(http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT3WRE3NLFC&live=true&tagid=ZZZOMSJK30C&subheading=US)
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/11/naacp/index.html)
38) The FBI has been investigating allegations that some voters,
primarily Haitians with limited or no English speaking or reading
ability, were duped into voting for Bush by misleading "palm cards" that
made them think they were voting for Gore.
(http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000126886,00.html)
39) In Miami, Haitian-Americans said they weren't given mandated ballots
in Creole, or were denied help from poll workers.
(http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/daily/detail/0,1136,36000000000133020,00.html)
40) In Healdsburg County, police were stopping African American voters,
asking for ID's and asking, "What are you doing here?"
(http://www.allegedirregularities.com/profiling/)
41) Many were asked a litany of questions even though they were on the
voting rolls and had ID's. The questions had to do with whether they had
been convicted of a felony, when was the last time they voted, etc. Only
African Americans appeared to be asked these questions.
(http://www.allegedirregularities.com/profiling/)
42) Four ballot boxes in heavily black precincts were alleged to not
have been picked up.
(http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/335/nation/NAACP_says_it_will_sue_over_alleged_flaws_in_Fla_voting+.shtml)
43) A polling place was demolished without notice.
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/11/naacp/index.html)
Racist and Hate Group Intimidation
44) Protesters have been infiltrated by Neo-Nazis, the KKK and other
hate groups. A major Neo-Nazi website encourages people to attend its
"No More Gore" rallies.
(http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0047/ladd.shtml) (www.stormfront.org)
Other Intimidation
45) Several Democrats were punched, kicked and trampled by Republican
goons during the court-ordered Miami-Dade recount. Death threats and
other assaults have also occurred, specifically towards Rep. Robert
Wexler, and Palm Beach commissioner Carol Roberts. A certain website
also published the home phone numbers of the Florida Supreme Court
Justices, and one can assume the possibility of death threats may have
reached even to that level. (http://www.msnbc.com/news/494375.asp)
Cyber Jim Crow
46) Due to a "computer glitch", approximately 12,000 voters across the
state were mistakenly identified as having out-of-state felony
convictions, thereby making them ineligible to vote. Although 8,000 of
these so marked were able to fix the problem through an arduous process
of restoring their rights through the Florida Office of Executive
Clemency, 4,000 remained ineligible to vote by Election Day. Those
falsely marked as felons included a disproportionate number of African
Americans, more disproportionate than the standard ratio of conviction
rates between blacks and whites would allow.
(www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,402957,00.html),
(http://home.netcom.com/~mecowan/voter_rolls.htm)
47) The source of this so-called "glitch": Database Technologies, a
division of ChoicePoint; hired by Florida Secretary of State Katherine
Harris. Harris hired Database Technologies to identify people registered
in other counties, those who have died, or those who are felons. In 1999
the FBI suspended their contract with DBT because of suspected ties of
the company founder to drug smugglers, despite the fact that one year
prior, a respected former DEA agent and narcotrafficking specialist was
hired as Vice President. (http://geocities.com/glitchgate)
48) ChoicePoint's founder, Rick Rozar, died from an accident in 1998.
According to Guardian Observer reporter Gregory Palast, he was "under
fire for misuse of personal data in state computers." ChoicePoint is a
very private firm with tight Republican ties.
(www.observer.co.uk/business/story/0,6903,402957,00.html),
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html)
49) The computer glitch that disenfranchised the 4,000 Floridians
stemmed largely from Texas state records that erroneously included
people with misdemeanors as having felonies.
(http://home.netcom.com/~mecowan/voter_rolls.htm)
Collusion
50) The Governor of Florida, Jeb Bush, is George W. Bush's brother.
51) Katherine Harris, Florida's Secretary of State and the person in
charge of certifying Florida's electors, was George W. Bush's Florida
co-chairwoman as far back as October 1999.
(http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/13/harris/index.html)
52) George W. Bush is son of the former President who was head of the
CIA. The CIA has experience in overturning elections and pulling off
coup d'etats in third-world countries.
(http://www.fas.org/irp/ops/policy/church-chile.htm)
(http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/chile/index.html)
Scorched Earth and Other Endgames
53) Despite the fact that Gore most likely won, if he succeeds is any of
his legal battles and wins the popular vote in Florida, the Florida
Legislature may decide to ignore this fact and railroad through their
own set of Republican electors, in violation of the will of the voters
and perhaps the will of the State Supreme Court of Florida.
(http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/electors18.htm)
54) If this fails, Republicans on Capitol Hill, led by House whip Tom
DeLay will initiate what he calls a "doomsday scenario" whereby they
would attempt to reject Florida's electoral votes if they feel it is
tainted (i.e. belonging to Gore), in violation of the will of the voters
in Florida and the rest of the country. Some Republicans have even
called for a boycott of the Inauguration should Gore prevail, in an
apparent scorched-earth policy aimed at crippling the Presidency right
from day one.
(http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/onpolitics/elections/congress20.htm)
(http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=136895)
Relevant Character Issues (Aside from the Obvious Ones)
55) Bush won't accept defeat. "...Even if he loses, his friends say, he
doesn't lose. He'll just change the score, or change the rules, or make
his opponent play until he can beat him..." as reported in Gail Sheehy's
"The Accidental Candidate" in the October 2000 issue of Vanity Fair.
(http://gailsheehy.com/Politics/politicsindex_bush3.html)
Doomed Anyways
56) Al Gore was character assassinated by a powerful Bush campaign
opposition machine which utilized a database of every public utterance
in Gore's 26 years in public service with which to twist every variance
and use it to tarnish him as duplicitous and untrustworthy. Opposition
research has never been used to this magnitude before.
(http://www.time.com/time/campaign2000/story/0,7243,59665,00.html)
Vendetta, Inc.
57) In many respects this whole election is about payback for a hatred
for Clinton (and by proxy, Gore) and what they have done to the "Bush
stocks". The corporate power players abide and abet, because they are
delighted at the prospect of grand-scale deregulation of business,
services and industry, 'bringing the business special interests into
politics so they can take over the regulatory bodies of government and
regulate themselves'.
(http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,406082,00.html)
Something is Rotten in the State of Florida.
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