Subject: The Election Story Never Told
Subject: The Election Story Never Told
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Silence Of The Lambs: The Election Story Never Told
By Greg Palast
Here's how the president of the United States was elected: In the months
leading up to the November balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his
Secretary of State, Katherine Harris, ordered local elections supervisors to
purge 64,000 voters from voter lists on the grounds that they were felons who
were not entitled to vote in Florida. As it turns out, these voters weren't
felons, or at least, only a very few were. However, the voters on this
"scrub list" were, notably, African-American (about 54 percent), while most
of the others wrongly barred from voting were white and Hispanic Democrats.
Beginning in November, this extraordinary news ran, as it should, on Page 1
of the country's leading paper. Unfortunately, it was in the wrong country:
Britain. In the United States, it ran on page zero