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Hungry Blues: Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.) Names The Thieves, The Civil Rights Commission Thinks There Was A Crime: It’s Time For An Investigation

  • Kim Pearson · 5 years ago
    Thanks for this. This is a very important story.
  • Harolynne Bobis · 5 years ago
    I just contacted MoveOn about the Civil Rights Commission's hearings and work regarding the 2000 election and what may come to be on November 2, 2004. Thanks for the suggestion.
  • Carole Hayes · 5 years ago
    Thought yopu might be interested in somd facts. Please look up this article. We are all Americans looking for the truth, aren't we?



    www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39936

    Thank you. Carole Hayes
  • Ben G. · 5 years ago
    Carol, thanks for your interest in this subject. I checked out the article you linked, but I fail to see what facts it contains. Kirsanow's "facts" consist of his citing what "some people were saying" or "these ads before an election cycle" and then saying that the claims of the people of the ads are wrong. He sets up anonymous straw men whom he counters with unsupported assertions of his own.



    Kirsanow asserts further that all allegations of voter intimidation are false. The US Commission on Civil Rights, for which he is a (Bush appointed) commissioner, has never stated that it reached any such conlcusion. Sadly, there are frequent reports in the presss of voter intimidation and trickery to suppress voter turnout. Also see the recent report issued by the the NAACP and People for the American Way.



    For an overview of some of the other facts about voting rights in our country you can read this post on my blog. Additionally, a congressional report [pdf] shows that outside of Florida, in the country as a whole, low income and minority voters are more likely than anyone else to have their votes discarded. If subsequent to the USCCR's 2001 report on Florida, the Commission had found that there had not actually been any voter disenfranchisement, their April 2004 report would not conclude that "the potential is real and present for significant problems on voting day that once again will compromise the right to vote" in 2004. If you haven't seen the USCCR report on Florida, it's defnitely worth a look, especially the executive summary and the testimonies in Chapter 2.



    Please review these sources and see how the "facts" in Larry Elder's interview with Peter Kirsanow measure up to the wealth of information available on the sad state of our electoral system.