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Squeaky Clean Florida
Posted on February 24, 2006 in Bush Effect by Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Nobody can have forgotten the debacle that was the 2000 US Presidential Election with the balance of power being fought for over accusations of voting impropriety in the state of Florida. To many US democrats, that election was simply ’stolen’ by the connivance of the republican led state government - led by George’s little bother Jeb - and the republican dominated Florida supreme court. Despite the Bush victory, the reputation of the states punch-card voting system was irretrievably damaged and the country was promised no such repeat in 2004. Indeed electronic, computer operated voting machines (pictured left) were introduced for the Shrubs second shot at office and Florida officially announced the vote as squeaky clean.

Consumer group watchdog Black Box Voting have successfully sued former Palm Beach County (FL) Supervisor of Elections Theresa LePore to get the audit records for the 2004 presidential election.

After investing over $7,000 and waiting nine months for the records, Black Box Voting discovered that the voting machine logs contained approximately 100,000 errors. According to voting machine assignment logs, Palm Beach County used 4,313 machines in the Nov. 2004 election. During election day, 1,475 voting system calibrations were performed while the polls were open, providing documentation to substantiate reports from citizens indicating the wrong candidate was selected when they tried to vote.

Another disturbing find was several dozen voting machines with votes for the Nov. 2, 2004 election cast on dates like Oct. 16, 15, 19, 13, 25, 28 2004 and one tape dated in 2010. These machines did not contain any votes date-stamped on Nov. 2, 2004.

The list of errors and questions that really need answers, is long. But so far officials seem to be saying nothing. But it suggests that the scent of voting fraud still hangs over the state.

2 Responses to “Squeaky Clean Florida”

  1. on 09 Apr 2006 at 7:16 pm1Joe N.

    I recommend you look into an organization called ACORN. They were found to have stuff
    in excess of 40 000 ballots in Ohio in 2004, and had operations running all over the US in
    2000 and 2004.

    In fact there was attepted theft of the 2000 election.

    By leftists.

    You’ll not the extent they went to to try to make some ballots ‘more noble’ than others.
    Plain and simple, they tried to steal an election in 2000, and convinced every fuzzy-
    headed idiot in the US with degrees in the feeling and unthinking sciences to eat it
    up whole, go out in public, and yeal STOLEN.

    5 days after they started that nonsense it started to look extremely familiar to me. Virtually
    everything they do runs along those lines. That’s when I changed my party registration
    to Republican.

  2. on 09 Apr 2006 at 8:09 pm2Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

    Hi Joe
    As I said in the other post you commented on - I’m not, at heart, a conspiracy theorist. By all means send me a link to an ‘ACORN’ story that is verifiable and I’ll give it considered thought and maybe do a piece on it. But… when it comes to propaganda both ends of your political spectrum are at it and please don’t try and persuade me that the Republican machine is squeaky clean. You’ve only got to look at the number of indictments flowing about to know that ain’t true.

    So - if there is any verifiable truth to what you assert at the worst it counters the debacle that was Republican engineering of Florida in 2000. Surely no-one can any longer be in denial over that?

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