Vanishing Votes

Vanishing Votes by Gregory Palast

On October 29, 2002, George W. Bush signed the Help America Vote Act (HAVA). Hidden behind its apple-pie-and-motherhood name lies a nasty civil rights time bomb.

First, the purges. In the months leading up to the November 2000 presidential election, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, in coordination with Governor Jeb Bush, ordered local election supervisors to purge 57,700 voters from the registries, supposedly ex-cons not allowed to vote in Florida. At least 90.2 percent of those on this 'scrub' list, targeted to lose their civil rights, are innocent. Notably, more than

Very interesting reading. Thanks. I have wondered many times how people get elected. I pretty much figured they made a show of counting the votes to fool the public. In reality they had already decided whose turn it was to be president or governor or ....... whatever.

Computers are great servants. They always do what you tell them and if you tell them 1 + 1 = 3 then they will ratify it.

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