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Your data and/or source is incorrect concerning the votes cast by people of color. That level of consipracy is impossible to pull off.
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I beg to differ.
My source is accurate - I hold Greg Palast in very high regard as an investigative journalist as do many other people.
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You obviously know nothing about basic statistics and I feel sorry for any students you allegedly attempted to teach.
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I hope you never try teaching anyone how to read - I would feel sorry for any students you might allegedly attempt to teach.
[HINT: try reading the complete source article of which the text I posted
in italics was a direct quote from.]
For your edification here is another quote from Mr Palasts website complete with accompanying link to complete source article (I'll put this all in italics so that people reading this who have more than an ounce of common sense will be able to tell easily that these words are quoted and not my own)
In the 2004 election, over THREE MILLION voters were challenged at the polls. No one had seen anything like it since the era of Jim Crow and burning crosses. In 2004, voters were told their registrations had been purged or that their addresses were “suspect.”
Denied the right to the regular voting booths, these challenged voters were given “provisional” ballots. Over a million of these provisional ballots (1,090,729 of them) were tossed in the electoral dumpster uncounted.
Funny thing about those ballots. About 88% were cast by minority voters.
This isn’t a number dropped on me from a black helicopter. They come from the raw data of the US Election Assistance Commission in Washington, DC.
At the heart of the GOP’s mass challenge of voters were what the party’s top brass called, “caging lists” — secret files of hundreds of thousands of voters, almost every one from a Black-majority voting precinct.
When our investigations team, working for BBC TV, got our hands on these confidential files in October 2004, the Republicans told us the voters listed were their potential “donors.” Really? The sheets included pages of men from homeless shelters in Florida.
Donor lists, my ass. Every expert told us, these were “challenge lists,” meant to stop these Black voters from casting ballots.
When these “caged” voters arrived at the polls in November 2004, they found their registrations missing, their right to vote blocked or their absentee ballots rejected because their addresses were supposedly “fraudulent.”
Why didn’t the GOP honchos ‘fess up to challenging these allegedly illegal voters? Because targeting voters of color is AGAINST THE LAW. The law in question is the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Act says you can’t go after groups of voters if you choose your targets based on race. Given that almost all the voters on the GOP hit list are Black, the illegal racial profiling is beyond even Karl Rove’s ability to come up with an alibi.
The Republicans target Black folk not because they don’t like the color of their skin. They don’t like the color of their vote: Democrat. For that reason, the GOP included on its hit list Jewish retirement homes in Florida. Apparently, the GOP was also gunning for the Elderly of Zion.
These so-called “fraudulent” voters, in fact, were not fraudulent at all. Page after page, as we’ve previously reported, are Black soldiers sent overseas. The Bush campaign used their absence from their US homes to accuse them of voting from false addresses.
Now that the GOP has been caught breaking the Voting Rights law, they have found a way to keep using their expensively obtained “caging” lists: let the law expire next year. If the Voting Rights Act dies in 2007, the 2008 race will be open season on dark-skinned voters. Only the renewal of the Voting Rights Act can prevent the planned racial wrecking of democracy. -
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