They're getting ready to cheat in Florida by Molly Ivins

[DaveSZ]

http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/08/14Ivins_edit.html

They're getting ready to cheat in Florida
Molly Ivins, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST
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Saturday, August 14, 2004

In the national crossfire that passes for political debate these days, we observe much arm-waving over whether the latest "terrorist threat" warnings are on the level or merely designed to take voters' minds off bad job news, bad Iraq news, bad Afghanistan news, etc. I boldly suggest not a single mouth-flapper on either side has any idea. How the hell would any of them know what al Qaeda is up to?

If you want to make the point that Karl Rove is perfectly capable of using terrorist threats for political purposes, go right ahead, but that doesn't mean he's done so.

Meanwhile, we might more profitably continue our efforts to keep a grip on reality by paying attention to some of those little things, those itty-bitty things that are observably so.

Florida, the Fun State, is off to a fast start on election shenanigans this year. Undeterred by the state's electoral disgrace in 2000, elections officials there have all but publicly announced, "We're going to cheat again this year." In July, voting rights groups asked for the audits of the 2002 gubernatorial election, supposedly collected by new electronic voting machines. Ooops. Records gone.

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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. This is the real thing. Focus here.

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2. truly