[soycd]

These leftists must need another freeping.

[Dog Gone]

We need to post the article from Harper's that this paper so lovingly endorses.

[RogueIsland]

Had thousands of voters not wrongly been turned away from the polls, the outcome in Florida probably would have been different and Gore, not Bush, would be in the White House.

And another thing -- I have a bone to pick with the Taft election....

[OldFriend]

Guess they are happy that so many military ballots were thrown out. For shame.

[Congressman Billybob]

I've been to Concord twice, to testify before the New Hampshire House. Flew there once in January on a twin Beach, in a snowstorm. That, in an of itself, was a memorable experience.

Concord a beaufiful town. The Capitol is charming -- old clocks, ladderback chairs, Shaker-style simplicity. And the Committee members stayed there until everyone who wanted to testify, had testified. It was a rare and refreshing experience.

But then, while I was there, I never met any of the reporters or editors of the Concord Monitor and saw how black and twisted their souls are. I receommend Concord for a visit by anyone. It's the smallest town in America which is a state capitol. Just stay away from the folks at the Monitor. They would spoil your visit.

Congressman Billybob

New column: "The Truman Factor."

[sanjacjake]

There was one BIG VOTE that swayed it for Bush... and next time you say your prayers, you can thank HIM.

[sneakypete]

Most of the disenfranchised voters were black.

I ain't exactly a Bubba Bush fan,but how the hell do these people keep getting away with reporting these racist lies? What about the reports of Goober getting from 104-112% of the black vote in some states? Just how damn many black voters ARE there? Especially with at least 25% of the males having criminal records that are supposed to keep them from voting!

Not that this really makes any difference. The only interest Bubba Bush and Janet Ashcroft have when it comes to voter fraud is covering it up so nobody gets prosecuted.

[finnman69]

I thought there was something like a a 95% black voter turnout. What a bunch of BS.

[MEGoody]

Oh, brother. There is absolutely no evidence to support what this guy is saying, but he figures if he keeps saying it, people will believe it anyway. He reminds me of a little kid who keeps whining to his mommy about needing the some toy.

[jos65]

What else is new?

Perhaps the Republicans taking Social Security from the elderly.

or Preventing the elderly from having perscription plans.

And the list goes on.

Lies, lies, and more lies.

[Pistolshot]

To all you Bush bashers and lurkers............

GET OVER IT.
GORE LOST.
BUSH WON.
MOVE ON.

[FryingPan101]

Is there any truth to this?

[The Old Hoosier]

...a pall will forever hang over the 2000 election...

What are they talking about? Didn't Bush win by a landslide over Gore? I can't remember what they're referring to...

[TUX]

Despiration attempt by the Democraps. They see their base slipping away and the sweet breath of freedom sweeping the world.

I predicted that W (the most popular president in history) would give them enough rope to hang themselves. Great to see the Rats twisting in the wind of change.

[Piquaboy]

Why is it that these people never read and understand the constitution. If they did, they would know that the U.S. Supreme court was right on in its decision.

[medved]

Take fraud out of the picture, and the election wasn't close. All polls showed a landslide a week prior to election and the only thing those polls can't really measure is fraud. The governor of Pa. told the Bush camp Pa was in the bag and those party internal polls are supposed to be the very best; again they don't measure fraud. W was up by 60K votes in Fla with a half hour to go when Algor called to concede and some turkey clearly manufactured 60,000 votes and spread them around in the last fifteen minutes; he merely missed his tally by a couple thousand.

If we don't get some sort of a handle on voting fraud, republicans will never win another election in America. My own favored solution is to do away with the idea of the secret ballot. It's no longer needed and without it, fraud would be impossible. The secret ballot was needed in 1920 when people lived in company towns and would get fired for voting the wrong way, or lived in Peyton place and didn't want neighbors knowing who they were sleeping with AND who they were voting for. Neither situation exists in today's America.

[smith288]

Are they insinuating that most of the people who are too stupid to read the butterfly ballot are blacks? Awfully racist to be making such an accusation.

[L.N. Smithee]

Reform efforts are under way, but at least one major flaw in the system should be repaired by Congress before another national election is held. A chilling two-page account in the current issue of Harper's magazine by Greg Palast, who investigated the 2000 election for the BBC, illustrates why.

I have read Palast's stuff on Florida before. While on the surface this reads like the allegations of police blockades in black neighborhoods and few-and-far-between incidents of problems with individual election workers, it's a different tale altogether.

Palast focuses on the scrubbing from the Florida voter rolls the names of alleged felons, and the way that the job was monumentally botched, revoking the right to vote for criminals who had a legal right to vote. He makes great hay out of the fact that the company that screwed things up -- a division of ChoicePoint, founded by a Republican donor, now deceased -- was located in (cue scary music!) Texas. He also makes the accusation that Katherine Harris violated the Florida law by making those who were mistakenly scrubbed reapply to vote. Most of the non-felonious criminals were black, and there were supposedly more mistakenly scrubbed than made up the winning margin for Bush, so, the thinking is hundreds of potential Gore voters weren't allowed to choose him by Harris and Jeb Bush.

Essentially, Palast argues that ChoicePoint's ineptitude was too beneficial to the Bushes to be an accident. As someone who once was in a board meeting that was entirely about ChoicePoint's inability to get my department necessary applicant information, I can tell you all that I am not surprised, and don't think it was a plot.

When reading Palast's story at face value, complete with charging after Fla. officials through parking lots and being rebuffed, it seems like a damning argument, but the question is, why is it that the actual alleged victims of what went on don't embrace Palast, and continue to hold on to the butterfly ballot and the bogus charges of racism as the cause of the "disinfranchisement?" I hate to say I won't believe it until I see it in the mainstream media, but I don't think it would allow this story to languish in the pages of Harper's a year and a half after the fact if it could stand up to scrutiny.