Governor Bush: Halt Your Voter Intimidation

[Stone_Spirits]

http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=17526

Governor Bush: Halt Your Voter Intimidation

Contributed by Working Assets

The disenfranchisement and intimidation of tens of thousands of Florida voters in the 2000 presidential election was an embarrassment to our democracy that outraged many Americans. African-American voters -- who only a few decades ago had to fight to win the right to vote in many Southern states -- reported being harassed, turned away from their polling places, or given misleading ballot instructions. Regrettably, this ugly tradition of intimidating black voters has resurfaced this election year and Governor Jeb Bush has done nothing to stop it.

State troopers, armed and in plain clothes, have gone into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando and interrogated them in a bizarre hunt for evidence of election fraud. The officers from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, which reports to Gov. Bush, claim to be investigating allegations of voter fraud related to the mayoral election nearly six months ago. The "investigation" continues despite a finding by the department last May "that there was no basis to support the allegations of election fraud."

Such questioning and interrogation of voters is uncomfortably reminiscent of 1960s-style voter intimidation tactics. This investigation, which has targeted elderly African-Americans who performed get-out-the-vote activities or voted by absentee ballot, has frightened many voters and intimidated elderly volunteers, causing one woman to ask, "Am I going to go to jail now because I voted by absentee ballot?"

New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, who has put this issue on a national stage, concludes "the long and ugly tradition of suppressing the black vote is alive and thriving in the Sunshine State."

Call to action

Demand that Gov. Bush halt these intimidation tactics.
http://www.workingforchange.com/activism/action.cfm?ItemId=17526

Deadline: Ongoing

[lil-petunia]

1. hey, whatever works. Who wants blacks voting anyway?

It makes it that much harder to steal the damned election afterwards.
Hey, same thing goes for them broads, stupid libruls and those fuckin' homos.

All WE want is a bunch of rednecks voting often, voting early, voting without thinking. We let their church leaders tell them what to do.

[mcar]

2. Thanks for this

I just sent it and copied some Florida friends.

[ck4829]

3. I forwarded this to my Group

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/anti_cnp