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Date Posted: 00:07:46 06/30/03 Mon
Author: gumtree
Subject: Just a reminder of the theft that took place a few years ago...

In the summer of 1999, Katherine Harris, sometime Florida Secretary of State under Jeb Bush (and coincidentally, at the same time, George W. Bush's Campaign Chairman), paid a company called Database Technologies to develop a list of anyone 'suspected' of being a felon on Florida voter rolls. The purpose of the list was to then expunge the voter rolls of those persons named on the list produced. The perameters established by Ms. Harris for this search included such criteria as anyone who's 'name was the same or similar to a convicted felon' or sharing a 'similar' social security number, or the same birth date as a convicted felon. If a person was an 80% match to data on a convicted felon, one was barred from voting. Database Technologies was aghast at such a 'wide net' approach, and even wrote Ms. Harris that the list would contain many 'false positives' - none the less, the list was applied.

Curiously enough, this disenfranchised over (for example) 66% of the black vote for Miami-Dade; only a small percentage of these were actual felons. In addition, Database Technologies was supplied (by Ms. Harris) another list of felons from another state who had since moved to Florida; this was the only list of potential voters from out of state that was supplied. Guess - yes, the state was Texas. This list included those who had indeed been convicted of a felony, had served their time, and were by law now allowed to vote. It also included folks who had only been convicted of misdemeanors. But, all these 8,000 people who had moved from Texas to Florida were barred from voting.

This apparently came in very handy in the 2000 elections.

Interesting to note: Jeb Bush's wife should have been included on the list of felons; she was caught by immigration officials attempting to smuggle in some $19K in jewelry without declaring it or paying tax; this was 'overlooked'...

Also interesting to note, that on election night, the first network to declare George the victor in Florida was Fox News; who was in charge of Fox News Election Coverage at the time? John Ellis, first cousin of George Bush.

No, it wasnt a plot. No, there was no conspiracy. No, they werent up to crooked election politics. But is sure does stink.

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