{"article":{"id":4439,"heading":"BUSHS RIGGED FLORIDA VOTING","author":"nice person","created":"2000-11-10 02:47:44","modified":"2005-08-15 00:30:14","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 08:30:14","article":"<p>;lskfjglsfidj\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/p><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>BUSHS RIGGED FLORIDA VOTING<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Nov. 8, 2:20 am<\/p>\r\n<p>Corporate Media declared Bush had the lead in Florida<\/p>\r\n<p>with 50,000 votes over Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>Bush was declared the winner of the Presidential Elections.<\/p>\r\n<p>Then Gore calls Bush and concedes the election to Bush.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Nov. 8, 3:30 am<\/p>\r\n<p>Bush's lead in Florida drops to 500 votes over Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>Nov. 8, 3:45 am<\/p>\r\n<p>Bush's lead in Florida drops to 224 votes over Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Nov. 8, 4:48 p.m.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Corporate Media declares Bush's lead in Florida<\/p>\r\n<p>is 1,780 to 500 votes over Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Nationally Gore leads Bush by about 260,000 votes.<\/p>\r\n<p>Gore has won the popular vote.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Florida has about 6 million voters this year.<\/p>\r\n<p>Florida voting population is mostly Democrat, not Republican.<\/p>\r\n<p>Republicans dominate political offices in Florida<\/p>\r\n<p>by Jerry Mandering, and other techniques.<\/p>\r\n<p>Governor Jeb Bush, George W. Bush's brother,<\/p>\r\n<p>has made many enemies since taking office.<\/p>\r\n<p>Many Florida voters don't like Jeb Bush,<\/p>\r\n<p>or his brother George W. Bush.<\/p>\r\n<p>You will soon find out why.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>The new Motor Voter Law registered<\/p>\r\n<p>some 25% to 35% of the 6 million voters in Florida,<\/p>\r\n<p>But many of the forms were not mailed or delivered<\/p>\r\n<p>to the office of voter registrars.<\/p>\r\n<p>So many who thought they were registered,<\/p>\r\n<p>were in for a shock when they found out<\/p>\r\n<p>they were not registered to vote, and<\/p>\r\n<p>it was too late to register to vote.<\/p>\r\n<p>Lets say it was the difference between 35% and 25%<\/p>\r\n<p>or 10% of the 6 million voters in Florida.<\/p>\r\n<p>That's 600,000 Florida citizens who could not vote,<\/p>\r\n<p>that wanted to vote.<\/p>\r\n<p>In a predominately Democratic State.<\/p>\r\n<p>The more people who vote,<\/p>\r\n<p>the more the chance a Democrat will win<\/p>\r\n<p>and a Republican will loose.<\/p>\r\n<p>Republicans tend to be registered by Republicans,<\/p>\r\n<p>not by the Department of Motor Vehicles.<\/p>\r\n<p>Who knows how many more votes<\/p>\r\n<p>Gore could have picked up from voters<\/p>\r\n<p>who thought they were registered, but weren't.<\/p>\r\n<p>Calling the office of registrars<\/p>\r\n<p>is one way to verify you are registered.<\/p>\r\n<p>Most people don't know this.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>The middle class retiree community<\/p>\r\n<p>of West Palm Beach FL<\/p>\r\n<p>are mostly Gore voters and anti-Buchanan.<\/p>\r\n<p>Older people are easy to confuse<\/p>\r\n<p>and take advantage of.<\/p>\r\n<p>These retirees went to vote for Gore on Nov. 7<\/p>\r\n<p>and found a very confusing ballot.<\/p>\r\n<p>It looked something like this:<\/p>\r\n<p>---------------------------------------<\/p>\r\n<p>BUSH [ ]<\/p>\r\n<p>GORE [x] BUCHANAN<\/p>\r\n<p>----------------------------------------<\/p>\r\n<p>If you voted by punching out the spot<\/p>\r\n<p>between GORE and BUCHANAN<\/p>\r\n<p>then you just voted for Buchanan, not Gore!<\/p>\r\n<p>Many of the West Palm Bach FL voters want to revote.<\/p>\r\n<p>They feel they were taken advantage of,<\/p>\r\n<p>and are starting a lawsuit.<\/p>\r\n<p>The Florida Attorney General acknowledged on NBC<\/p>\r\n<p>that ballots in the Palm Bach area were<\/p>\r\n<p>suspiciously structured in such a way<\/p>\r\n<p>that people who thought the were voting for Gore<\/p>\r\n<p>ended up having their votes<\/p>\r\n<p>being counted for Pat Buchanan!<\/p>\r\n<p>Buchanan received about .3% 1,800,000 votes<\/p>\r\n<p>of the 6 million FL votes state wide.<\/p>\r\n<p>But received about .6% or 8,900 votes<\/p>\r\n<p>of the 14,833 West Palm Beach votes,<\/p>\r\n<p>From anti-Buchanan voters who<\/p>\r\n<p>would be expected to vote around .1% for Buchanan.<\/p>\r\n<p>I will assume .3% of the West Palm Beach votes<\/p>\r\n<p>for Buchana were really for Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>That's 4,450 votes that were really for Buchanan,<\/p>\r\n<p>and 4,450 more votes for Gore than were counted!<\/p>\r\n<p>Bush is reported to have<\/p>\r\n<p>anywhere from 1,780 votes to 500 votes over Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>But if you add in the additional 4,450 votes for Gore<\/p>\r\n<p>from West Palm Beach,<\/p>\r\n<p>then Gore has 3,950 to 2,670 votes over Bush!<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Poor black voters who traditionally vote Democrat<\/p>\r\n<p>and live in downtown Miami FL,<\/p>\r\n<p>thought they had voted and that their vote counted.<\/p>\r\n<p>It has been reported the ballot boxes<\/p>\r\n<p>from downtown Miami FL were not picked up,<\/p>\r\n<p>so those votes were not counted.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Florida has had its share of vote fraud.<\/p>\r\n<p>Recently a Florida Mayor<\/p>\r\n<p>was removed from office for vote fraud.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Absentee votes will take<\/p>\r\n<p>about 10 days to be received, counted, and certified.<\/p>\r\n<p>That is on or about Friday Nov. 17 to Monday Nov. 20.<\/p>\r\n<p>The absentee votes currently coming in<\/p>\r\n<p>are mostly for Gore, not Bush.<\/p>\r\n<p>But it should be remembered that<\/p>\r\n<p>the Republicans are currently the masters of<\/p>\r\n<p>manipulation of absentee votes.<\/p>\r\n<p>Recounts usually take from 1 to 8 days.<\/p>\r\n<p>Recounts usually result in a change of votes<\/p>\r\n<p>+ or - a few hundred.<\/p>\r\n<p>Governor Jeb Bush of Florida<\/p>\r\n<p>has announced he is with drawing<\/p>\r\n<p>from serving on the State Panel<\/p>\r\n<p>that certifies vote recounts,<\/p>\r\n<p>To avoid any appearance of<\/p>\r\n<p>Bush's influence in the Panels decisions.<\/p>\r\n<p>But guess who appointed<\/p>\r\n<p>the members of the State Panel,<\/p>\r\n<p>and who is recounting the votes.<\/p>\r\n<p>The recount may be done as early as Nov. 9<\/p>\r\n<p>but will not include absentee votes.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>After the recount votes are certified, about Nov. 9,<\/p>\r\n<p> the Democrats have 10 days file a lawsuit<\/p>\r\n<p>to contest the votes in court,<\/p>\r\n<p>or until about Nov. 19.<\/p>\r\n<p>Most likely this will all go to court<\/p>\r\n<p>and last until inauguration time.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Democrats have already started<\/p>\r\n<p>looking for a scapegoat for all of this,<\/p>\r\n<p>And it is focused on Nader right now.<\/p>\r\n<p>Nader had 6% in the polls<\/p>\r\n<p>until the Democrats attacked Nader voters,<\/p>\r\n<p>And peeled off Nader voters<\/p>\r\n<p>with scare tactics to vote for Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>Only 3% of national votes<\/p>\r\n<p>were for Nader, 3% shifted to Gore.<\/p>\r\n<p>This means Nader voters<\/p>\r\n<p>have to start once again from scratch in 2004.<\/p>\r\n<p>You have to have 5% of the vote<\/p>\r\n<p>to get matching Federal funds,<\/p>\r\n<p>And automatically be on the ballot in the next election.<\/p>\r\n<p>A lot of hard work by Nader supporters<\/p>\r\n<p>has been sabotaged by Gore voters.<\/p>\r\n<p>In Florida, Nader went from<\/p>\r\n<p>an expected 6% of the vote<\/p>\r\n<p>to only 1.7% of the votes cast.<\/p>\r\n<p>If anything Gore voters should be<\/p>\r\n<p>thanking Nader voters for a tremendous self-sacrifice.<\/p>\r\n<p>Gore and Bush are for<\/p>\r\n<p>\"Free Trade\", MAI, NAFTA, GATT:<\/p>\r\n<p>Corporate control of Government.<\/p>\r\n<p>What many Nader voters did<\/p>\r\n<p>is vote for Corporate control of Government,<\/p>\r\n<p>not Public control of Government.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>For more info:<\/p>\r\n<p>Presidential Race Hinges On Florida Recount.<\/p>\r\n<p>Archived Democracy Now radio show for November 8, 2000<\/p>\r\n<p>http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/archive\/index.html<\/p>\r\n<p> <\/p>\r\n<p>Michael Moore's web site.<\/p>\r\n<p>http:\/\/www.michaelmoore.com<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Democracy Now radio show<\/p>\r\n<p>http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/stations.html<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Democracy Now radio show for the day<\/p>\r\n<p>http:\/\/www.democracynow.org<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n&nbsp; \r\n\r\n\r\n\n","contact":"","link":"","address":"","phone":"","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/html","summary":"BUSHS RIGGED FLORIDA VOTING","numcomment":23,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2000\/11\/bushs_rigg.html","filesize":"8.1 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2000\/11\/4439.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":42280,"heading":"BUSH 2004","article":"Can't stop me....only can hope to contain me!!!","author":"BUSH 2004","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 16:19:37","modified":"2003-03-28 16:19:37","fileurl":""},{"id":42282,"heading":"Vote for me","article":"Bush for impeachment in 2004!!","author":"Dubbya Bush","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 16:22:24","modified":"2003-03-28 16:22:24","fileurl":""},{"id":42294,"heading":"Simple","article":"A couple of problems with your ignornant rant above.\r\n\r\nFirst, the ballot used in Palm Beach is called a 'butterfly ballot'.  It is used extensively throughout the country - including Chicago Illinois.\r\n\r\nThe ballot in question was designed by the DEMOCRATS.  If it was too confusing, you can blame them.\r\n\r\nPat Buchanan received roughly the same number of votes from West Palm Beach in both the 1996 and 2000 elections.\r\n\r\nIf you want to talk about naked corruption and blatant stealing of elections, let's talk 1960 and a man called JFK.\r\n","author":"Simple Simon","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 16:34:43","modified":"2003-03-28 16:34:43","fileurl":""},{"id":42295,"heading":"Vote for Bush!","article":"Bush for impeachment in 2004! Simon needs psychiatric meds in 2003!","author":"Dick Cheney","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 16:37:18","modified":"2003-03-28 16:37:18","fileurl":""},{"id":42311,"heading":"Simple","article":"You boys better get used to George W. Bush.\r\n\r\nHe's going to be President until 2008.\r\n\r\nThen we'll run Condoleeza and really kick your butts.","author":"Simple Simon","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 16:57:38","modified":"2003-03-28 16:57:38","fileurl":""},{"id":42312,"heading":"YEA","article":"It's just starting with Iraq.\r\n\r\nBy 2008 we will have ridded the US of all liberal left wing scum.  Easy way or the hard way.\r\n\r\nPlease keep meeting in place where you can wipped out in one fell swoop.","author":"BUSH 4 PRES 2004","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 17:00:09","modified":"2003-03-28 17:00:09","fileurl":""},{"id":42347,"heading":"Bush for Prisoner","article":"Of course he'll be re-elected - it is pre-ordained. The fix is already in.\r\n\r\nVisit Votescam.org.","author":"Bush for Inmate of the Year.","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 18:04:25","modified":"2003-03-28 18:04:25","fileurl":""},{"id":42363,"heading":"Simple","article":"Join the NRA! Kill all of the intellectual liberals! After they're all dead, even I would be considered intelligent. That's right, me, with my IQ of 20!","author":"Simple Simon","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 18:46:52","modified":"2003-03-28 18:46:52","fileurl":""},{"id":42367,"heading":"Simple","article":"&quot;intellectual liberals&quot;\r\n\r\nhahahahhaha, good one!","author":"Simple Simon","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 18:53:12","modified":"2003-03-28 18:53:12","fileurl":""},{"id":42559,"heading":"All the proof Anybody needs","article":"http:\/\/www.unprecedented.org\/","author":"FluxRostrum","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 22:05:07","modified":"2003-03-28 22:05:07","fileurl":""},{"id":42564,"heading":"Simple","article":"What you meant to say is all the proof that YOU need.\r\n\r\nSurprised you didn't link to your pal Michael Moore.","author":"Simple Simon","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-28 22:16:04","modified":"2003-03-28 22:16:04","fileurl":""},{"id":42812,"heading":"Note to Simpleton Simon","article":"It's straighjacket time, again. We just don't seem to be making any progress with that multiple personality disorder of yours. ","author":"Dr. Sigmund Fruit","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-29 02:27:34","modified":"2003-03-29 02:27:34","fileurl":""},{"id":42848,"heading":"Simple","article":"You're really amusing, sonny.\r\n\r\nEventually you'll tire of this taunting crap and assuming other's nicks.  People will start using big words which will make you have to look them up - and then you won't have time to watch &quot;real world&quot; re-runs on MTV.\r\n\r\n","author":"Simple Simon","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-29 03:06:43","modified":"2003-03-29 03:06:43","fileurl":""},{"id":43036,"heading":"More Bull-Stuff","article":"Hey kiddies both Gore and Bush suck. Who cares who stole what. This country is a corporate fascist state. Yea we have freedom...freedom to choose between Coke and Pepsi. The freedom to choose between a presidential candidate who couldn't even carry his home state and a &quot;compassionate consevative&quot;(which means they get a microscopic tear in their eye when they put the corporate-government boot on your neck). Jeez, Bush sends troops over to Iraq to die for oil and then back home cuts veterans benefits by billions over the next ten years. He is just more of a world class scum bag then Gore. But both are scumbags.","author":"krankyman","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-29 16:42:40","modified":"2003-03-29 16:42:40","fileurl":""},{"id":43157,"heading":"Simple","article":"Hey, does anyone here have any &quot;Hee-Haw&quot; reruns that they could sell me?","author":"Simple Simon","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-29 18:18:59","modified":"2003-03-29 18:18:59","fileurl":""},{"id":43595,"heading":"agreed","article":"bush cheated\r\n\r\ngore tried to cheat\r\n\r\nNeither would have the balls to say EVERY vote counts.\r\nWe still need to vote AND demmand that they be counted.  The Vote is still the only peaceful way to acheive OUR regime change.\r\n\r\nIf you don't Vote they'll vote for you.\r\nhttp:\/\/images.indymedia.org\/imc\/mayday\/oscarskaqmos.mov\r\n","author":"FluxRostrum","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-30 05:35:46","modified":"2003-03-30 05:35:46","fileurl":""},{"id":43600,"heading":"twojackassesone elephant","article":"Lets see, look at this punchcard some dumb ass democrat failed to punch through right here in our democratically controled voting prectinct. Look a bump in the card me thinks it be a VOTE yes a VOTE for ALGORE. Wadda you think Elephant. Nope Jackass that be no vote at all - no hole.  Ok Elephant one vote ALGORE ONE VOTE no vote. hOW BOUT YOU BROTHER jACKASS wadda ya thinking that bump a vote. Yep brother Jackass thts a vote for ALGORE. Wadda ya say mr Elephant you loose again soon the election will be determined by us. We decide whaic cards are votes. \r\n\r\nHello Mr Sheep what do you vote on for lunch. I vote for salad. How bout you brother wolf. Well brother II vote for sheep howbout you. Yep I vote for sheep too. I just love this DEMOCRACY. \r\n\r\nBye Byer Mr. Sheep. Bye Bye Mr Bush.\r\n\r\nWadda ya mean the supreme court won't let us eat sheep?","author":"Chad McCounter","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2003-03-30 06:03:03","modified":"2003-03-30 06:03:03","fileurl":""},{"id":4443,"heading":"just need some clarification","article":"Most of your post made sense, but I'm needing some clarification on one part at the end.\r\n\r\n\"What many Nader voters did\r\n is vote for Corporate control of Government,\r\n not Public control of Government.\"\r\n\r\nThanks","author":"less","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-11-10 14:07:26","modified":"2000-11-10 15:00:00","fileurl":""},{"id":4445,"heading":"Good job, NP, as always.","article":"Nice work, guy, you are good at this.\r\n\r\n>It has been reported the ballot boxes\r\n>from downtown Miami FL were not picked up,\r\n>so those votes were not counted.\r\n\r\nQuote from a friend in FL, who by the way voted for Bu$h:\r\n\"This is Florida.  We 'lose' ballots a lot here.  We seem to 'lose' Democratic ones more.\"\r\n\r\n>Florida has had its share of vote fraud.\r\n>Recently a Florida Mayor\r\n>was removed from office for vote fraud.\r\n\r\nDead Man Voting.  They had many questionable absentee ballots, one from someone who had departed this vale of tears to where they don't need elections.  This was even on corporate media.\r\n\r\n>Democrats have already started\r\n>looking for a scapegoat for all of this,\r\n>And it is focused on Nader right now.\r\n\r\nTrue, but let's get one thing straight.  Nader did not blow the election for Gore.  Jeb Bush did not steal the election from Gore.  Gore blew the election for Gore.\r\n\r\nAnd all this is still the problem, not the solution.  We are the solution.  This is a full-blown Constitutional crisis in the USA.  These happen once every 100 years.  It's an incredible opportunity.\r\n\r\n\r\n-- .- -.- -.-. --- -. ..\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"Guglielmo Marconi","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-11-10 15:47:27","modified":"2000-11-10 16:00:01","fileurl":""},{"id":4468,"heading":"Stop using your head for a suppository.","article":"Since when do you idiots care whether Gore wins or looses?  Aren't you the same assholes who rioted at the R2K and D2K conventions?  While you are busy saving the animals and rain forests why don't you set yourselves on fire in the same way a few good Buddhists already have in the past?\r\n","author":"MrKlean","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-11-10 22:00:09","modified":"2000-11-10 22:12:12","fileurl":""},{"id":4485,"heading":"Its RC again...","article":"RC,\r\n\r\nYour pathology is so childish we know who you are despite how many times you change your name and hide behind the anonymity of the net...\r\n\r\nWe can find you in your sleep.\r\n\r\nWe can read your frail thoughts.\r\n\r\nYour days are numbered.\r\n\r\nPig.","author":"KleanIsRC","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-11-11 04:10:46","modified":"2000-11-11 04:38:28","fileurl":""},{"id":4486,"heading":"Its RC again...","article":"RC,\r\n\r\nYour pathology is so childish we know who you are despite how many times you change your name and hide behind the anonymity of the net...\r\n\r\nWe can find you in your sleep.\r\n\r\nWe can read your frail thoughts.\r\n\r\nYour days are numbered.\r\n\r\nPig.","author":"KleanIsRC","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-11-11 04:11:07","modified":"2000-11-11 04:38:28","fileurl":""},{"id":4630,"heading":"RE: Its RC again","article":"\"Your days are numbered.  Pig.\"\r\n\r\nOink!!\r\n\r\nUp you ass with a ham bone bitch!\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n","author":"<<< PorkChop >>>","parent_id":4439,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2000-11-17 20:18:56","modified":"2000-11-17 21:00:01","fileurl":""}]}