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Originally posted by Shakka Weren't you just in favor of Clark the other day?

I'm a fan of Clark, Edwards, Kerry, and Sharpton.

I've just seen Clark struggle in his campaign, so I've moved over to Kerry and Edwards more. I'm still undecided.

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Dude--what are you talking about? That crap is nonsense.

Hardly. The only thing that is "crap" as you put it, is that there was not more of an investigation into the matter.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/internati...,824516,00.html

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But for black Floridians, the 2000 elections were about disenfranchisement, and their problems are by no means over. Thousands of voters turned up at the polls two years ago and found their names had been removed from the electoral roll. It turned out that the Florida establishment, run by Governor Jeb Bush, George Bush's younger brother, had hired a private company to draw up a list of all Floridians with a criminal record, so they could be removed from the voting lists (under Florida law, past convictions bar you from voting for life). But the company, DBT, was instructed to overestimate and to "scrub" from the lists anyone with a similar name, date of birth and race to people with past felony convictions. As blacks account for nearly half of all such convictions, but only 11% of the Florida electorate, that meant that a disproportionate number of blacks with similar names and ages to felons were "scrubbed". "Our votes were stolen. It's like coming to my house and taking the groceries from my wife and children," Mr White said.

http://www.naacp.org/news/releases/...a_lawsuit.shtml

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In 2000, the NAACP made extensive efforts to register new voters and to encourage its members to vote. As a result of the efforts of the NAACP, the NAACP National Voter Fund, and other organizations, turnout among Black voters in Florida increased significantly in the November 7, 2000 general election, compared to recent general elections. However, Black voters were confronted with a multitude of non-uniform election practices that impeded their exercise of the franchise or disenfranchised them. In particular, as a result of the practices complained of in this action, in precincts with substantial numbers of Black voters, there were a disproportionate number of ballots with no vote counted for the office of President of the United States, Black voters were wrongfully purged from official lists of eligible voters, the voter registration applications of Black voters were not processed properly, and registered voters encountered unjustified barriers to voting at their precincts. Such barriers were caused by, inter alia, the failure to provide a complete official list of eligible voters at each polling place, inadequate processes for verifying the registration of voters not appearing on precinct lists, and the failure to offer voters who moved within the same county the opportunity to vote by affirmation or affidavit.

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Is Kerry planning on repealing any of Bush's tax cuts?

For the top 2 % income bracket.

I'm not so much a fan of vilifying rich people, and I think you can explain the benefits of a progressive tax plan without being openly hostile to rich voters. So he needs to lay off that a bit imo, but, I'll take that any day over Bush's authoritarian social policies that violate church/state separation, his reinstatement of the draft, and more of his unilateralist wars.

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He probably lost by a bigger margin in Tennesee--his own state.

Gore was an idiot for acting like a robot hehe.

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