New Florida vote scandal feared

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Adam Peake <ajp () glocom ac jp>
Date: October 26, 2004 11:10:41 PM EDT
To: dave () farber net
Subject: New Florida vote scandal feared

Say it ain't so...

Led from the BBC home page "Fears of a plan to deny Florida's black 
Americans the vote" 
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/3956129.stm>

New Florida vote scandal feared

By Greg Palast
Reporting for BBC's Newsnight

A secret document obtained from inside Bush campaign headquarters in 
Florida suggests a plan - possibly in violation of US law - to disrupt 
voting in the state's African-American voting districts, a BBC 
Newsnight investigation reveals.

Two e-mails, prepared for the executive director of the Bush campaign 
in Florida and the campaign's national research director in Washington 
DC, contain a 15-page so-called "caging list".

It lists 1,886 names and addresses of voters in predominantly black and 
traditionally Democrat areas of Jacksonville, Florida.  (rest at URL 
above.)


Newsnight is a nightly program and available online for 24 hours after 
broadcast <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm> 
 The Florida program will be online until about 22:30 BST today (Oct 
27.) Barry Richard, lead council for the Bush/Cheney campaign in 
Florida 2000 and again this year, said the "caging list" was simply 
about checking newly registered voters and particularly their 
addresses. His explanations seemed quite reasonable. Depends on how 
detailed the challenge will be (your zip code's wrong vs. there is no 
street of that name.)

Adam

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