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BBC Uncovers Criminal Vote Fraud in Florida 2004
Republican "Caging List"
(Greg Palast, October 26, 2004)
A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC Newsnight investigation reveals. . . . Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list". . . . It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida. . . . An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: "The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day." . . . Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot. . . . "Quite frankly, this process can be used to slow down the voting process and cause chaos on election day; and discourage voters from voting." . . . Sancho calls it "intimidation." And it may be illegal. . . . In Washington, well-known civil rights attorney, Ralph Neas, noted that US federal law prohibits targeting challenges to voters, even if there is a basis for the challenge, if race is a factor in targeting the voters. . . . The list of Jacksonville voters covers an area with a majority of black residents. . . . There was no explanation as to why such clerical matters would be sent to top officials of the Bush campaign in Florida and Washington. . . . In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans were using the lists or other means of intimidating voters, we filmed a private detective filming every "early voter" - the majority of whom are black - from behind a vehicle with blacked-out windows. . . . The private detective claimed not to know who was paying for his all-day services. . . . On the scene, Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate and scare off African American voters, almost all of whom are registered Democrats.

posted by LoZo 3:54 PM