The Case Against Florida's Electors
I. Republican state election officials and
others engaged in acts of official
misconduct and deliberate fraud and were
part of a conspiracy to suppress voter
turnout through illegal methods:
1. Before the election, Republican
Secretary of State Katherine Harris
spent $4 million of taxpayer funds to
hire a firm with ties to far-right
activists to purge voters who were
allegedly felons. The list of
"felons" included 8,000 American
citizens - mostly minorities - who
committed only misdemeanors and
thousands of innocent people - again
mostly minorities - with the same
names as felons. By this action
almost 58,000 U.S. citizens were
denied due process and the right to
vote.
2. Secretary Harris unlawfully certified
the election results from 20 of
Florida's 67 counties without
requiring - as mandated under Florida
law for elections decided by one half
of one percent or less - that they
conduct automatic machine
recounts. While publicly denying
knowledge of the failure of almost a
third of Florida's counties to be in
compliance with the law, Harris's
office privately knew the facts.
3. Secretary Harris unlawfully accepted
and certified the results of hand
recounts in six Florida counties that
produced an additional 400 votes for
George W. Bush while rejecting the
results of hand recounts in other
counties.
II. Republican county election supervisors
and others engaged in official misconduct
and deliberate fraud:
1. In Duval County, a pre-election purge
of the voter rolls unlawfully removed
22,000 voters - mostly African
Americans - who voted in the primary
election in August but were denied
the right to vote in
November. Another 27,000 votes cast
on election day were discarded,
primarily in African-American
sections of Jacksonville. This
represented one-fourth of the votes
in certain precincts. The Republican
Supervisor of Elections unlawfully
withheld these facts from local
Democrats until the deadline for
requesting a recount had passed.
2. Lake County: The Republican county
canvassing board rejected all ballots
in which the voter not only correctly
penciled in his or her choice in the
appropriate oval beside the
candidate's name but also emphasized
that choice by writing in the
candidate's name, just below a line
that carries the instruction "WRITE
IN." This is a willful violation of
the state of Florida's election law
directing that ballots be counted
where the clear intent of the voter
is evident.
3. Miami-Dade County: Investigations by
news organizations have uncovered
several hundred ineligible persons,
including Cuban citizens, who were
permitted to vote on election
day. These investigations of only a
fraction of the Miami-Dade election
districts suggest a total number of
ineligible persons being allowed to
vote numbering in the thousands. In
addition, the methods used to secure
and vote absentee ballots that were
found by the Florida Supreme Court to
be unlawful in 1998 were repeated in
this election, resulting in an untold
number of fraudulent ballots.
4. Broward County: In addition to
evidence of voting by thousands of
non-citizens, we believe there is
sufficient evidence to uncover a
conspiracy that involved controlling
precincts through workers that
enabled the fraudulent introduction
of pre-punched ballots into certain
precincts, a conspiracy to generate
fraudulent absentee ballots, and
unlawful activities to suppress voter
turnout including the purposeful
assignment of non-working voting
machines to precincts that were
heavily black and Democratic.
5. Seminole and Martin Counties:
Election supervisors have already
admitted providing favorable
treatment for Republican voters who
requested absentee ballots that was
denied to Democratic and independent
voters. Republican election workers
were permitted to correct incomplete
absentee ballot requests, and those
requests were honored even when the
Republican election workers failed to
correctly complete the forms.
6. Okaloosa County: The election
supervisor directed that optical
scanning machines be programmed not
to reject erroneous ballots,
resulting in an inflated number of
uncounted ballots.
7. Our examination of ballots in four
other counties is producing evidence
of post-election ballot tampering to
reduce the number of overvotes
(Jackson), a massively inflated
number of overvotes in only the
presidential race (Gadsden), and
statistical anomalies in the election
results (Liberty and Calhoun).
III. Vice President Gore won more votes in
Florida
When the Florida Supreme Court ordered a
statewide manual recount on December 8,
Bush's lead was only 154 votes. More
recently, news media recounts in Lake and
Broward counties gave Gore 294 votes,
putting Gore ahead of Bush for the first
time - by 140 votes. As more manual
recounts are completed throughout Florida,
Gore's lead will grow into the
thousands.
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