{"article":{"id":5652,"heading":"Civil Rights Commission: Fraud in Florida","author":"drunken W","created":"2001-03-11 18:51:28","modified":"2005-08-15 00:31:41","last_modified":"Mon, 15 Aug 2005 07:31:41","article":"

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US Commission on Civil Rights charges \"voter disenfranchisement... at heart\" of Bush victory in Florida

By Jerry White

10 March 2001



The US Commission on Civil Rights issued a preliminary report Friday that provided damning evidence of the systematic and intentional disenfranchisement of voters by Florida officials during the 2000 presidential election. The commission presented facts that lead inexorably to the conclusion that the state administration, headed by President Bush's brother, Governor Jeb Bush, made decisions on and before election day all but assuring that a high percentage of likely Democratic voters would either be blocked from voting, or prevented from having their votes counted.















































<\/p>\n","contact":"president@whitehouse.gov","link":"http:\/\/wsws.org\/articles\/2001\/mar2001\/vote-m10.shtml","address":"The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500","phone":"202-456-1414","parent_id":0,"mime_type":"text\/plain","summary":"The US Commission on Civil Rights issued a preliminary report Friday that provided damning evidence of the systematic and intentional disenfranchisement of voters by Florida officials during the 2000 presidential election. The commission presented facts that lead inexorably to the conclusion that the state administration, headed by President Bush's brother, Governor Jeb Bush, made decisions on and before election day all but assuring that a high percentage of likely Democratic voters would either be blocked from voting, or prevented from having their votes counted.","numcomment":1,"fileurl":"\/uploads\/2001\/03\/civil_righ.txt","filesize":"8.7 kibibytes","article_url":"\/news\/2001\/03\/5652.php"},"attachments":[],"comments":[{"id":5654,"heading":"Impeach Bush","article":"We all know Bush screwed the country after the election, and now we know he did it directly to the election as well. So let's impeach this sumbitch.","author":"Vac","parent_id":5652,"mime_type":"text\/plain","created":"2001-03-11 23:11:57","modified":"2001-03-11 23:32:37","fileurl":""}]}