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How the 2000 US Election was stolen in Florida

Posted on 2015/08/06 - 2015/08/06 by jd

Never forget, never forgive.

‘…No one could ever determine precisely how many voters who were incorrectly labeled felons were turned away from the polls. But the US Civil Rights Commission launched a major investigation into the 2000 election fiasco, and its acting general counsel, Edward Hailes, did the math the best that he could. If 12,000 voters were wrongly purged from the rolls, and 44 percent of them were African-American, and 90 percent of African-Americans voted for Gore, that meant 4,752 black Gore voters — almost nine times Bush’s margin of victory — could have been prevented from voting. It’s not a stretch to conclude that the purge cost Gore the election…’

Source: How the 2000 Election in Florida Led to a New Wave of Voter Disenfranchisement | BillMoyers.com

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