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geefloyd46

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Fri May 25, 2012, 06:34 AM May 2012

Daily Kos: Florida begins MASSIVE voter purge in early bid to steal Presidency before elections [View all]

This has EVERYTHING to do with the fact that Florida is a swing state. This has everything to do with stopping citizens from being able to vote. This has EVERYTHING to do with voter supression. Denying your countrymen their right to a vote, brought to you by the Republican Party.

. . . in this election, “Governor Scott wants to play the role of Katherine Harris.”
Katherine Harris, of course, was the Florida Secretary of State who helped George W. Bush "win" Florida and the Presidential election of 2000 after Bush v Gore was decided 5-4 by the Supreme Court in the most activist thing any American court had ever done at the time. According to ThinkProgress.org one estimate from 2000 said that 7,000 voters were wrongfully removed from the rolls of eligible voters, 88% of whom were African-American. Al Gore won 92% of the African-American vote in Florida in 2000

more here: http://laborspains.blogspot.com/2012/05/daily-kos-florida-begins-massive-voter.html


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