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Assist. AG Boyd is right to end this, because we have no chance of getting honest press. They were still doing recounts on 9-11. Mary Frances and her allies are blinded with hate and years of getting away with it. She, like most Democrats, doesn't even understand when she's being given a gracious way out. As a Florida Republican, I wish we could take her on in a class action suit.
Non-Voted Ballots and Discrimination in Florida -

John Lott ("More Guns, Less Crime") shows that contrary to the Dem./press accusations of "Republican racism" during the 2000 Presidential election in Florida, the largest block of "disenfranchised" voters were black Republicans in the Dem. precincts.

What's more, Mary Frances Berry and the Dems./press knew this. The "Civil Rights" report left out the Lott report...though sound because she claimed that he did it for free, thus somehow making it legal to ignore it.

Further reading:
The mainstream media made no mention, except in one short quote in the middle of a "republicans are racist" piece in the NY Times, and the original, short-lived John Lott editorial in the LA Times.

Disenfranchised Blacks in Florida:
Black Republicans are a small minority in Florida, about one for every 20 black Democrats. But, as Lott pointed out in the Los Angeles Times, "This is a large number when you consider that the election in the state was decided by fewer than 1,000 votes."

The new findings likely would be an interesting footnote to the Florida recount battles if they didn't explicitly contradict the central claim of a hasty report by the heavily Democratic U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The commission argued that blacks in general had been "nearly 10 times more likely to have their ballots declared invalid." Lott says his findings established that this figure is impossible to verify.

....But the new data show that if there was any deliberate effort to suppress votes, it was "not because of race but because of party," Lott reported in a recent Los Angeles Times article. He reveals that a "wide range" of factors influence spoiled-ballot rates, including "education, gender, income, age, number of absentee votes, voting-machine type, ballot type and whether votes were counted at the precinct or centrally." But it is the "isolated fact of being a Republican that makes an African-American vastly more likely to have his or her ballot declared invalid" than by any other identifiable standard. .

The LA Times article disappeared from the web shortly after it was published.

Also, from Policy Review Online:

A study by John Lott reports black Republican voters were an astonishing 50 to 66 times more likely than the average black to have a spoiled ballot, and that black Democratic voters actually had a slightly lower spoilage rate than the average voter. His findings also seem inconsistent with any conspiracy by white or Republican election supervisors, since the rate of spoiled ballots was 14 percent to 31 percent higher in precincts with black or Democratic election supervisors. The overall rate of spoiled ballots was also higher for white Republican voters than white Democratic voters.