10.27.2004
BBC Reveals New Florida Vote Scandal (Scoop.co.nz)
BBC Television News On-Line
Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Greg Palast, reporting
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.
An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: 'The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day.'
Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot."
(More ... Scoop: Greg Palast: BBC Reveals New Florida Vote Scandal)
(Watch it tonight at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
begining at 5.30pm EST, available for 24 hours.)
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Tuesday, October 26, 2004
Greg Palast, reporting
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.
An elections supervisor in Tallahassee, when shown the list, told Newsnight: 'The only possible reason why they would keep such a thing is to challenge voters on election day.'
Ion Sancho, a Democrat, noted that Florida law allows political party operatives inside polling stations to stop voters from obtaining a ballot."
(More ... Scoop: Greg Palast: BBC Reveals New Florida Vote Scandal)
(Watch it tonight at
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm
begining at 5.30pm EST, available for 24 hours.)
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