Disconnected Rumblings

Wednesday, October 27, 2004

Voting Time!

Well Leah and I went to vote today at our closest early voting location. It was quite quick and easy. I am proud to say that I voted for John Kerry, the next President of the United States. What's in the news today? Well missing stockpiles of explosives in Iraq, are still in the news. Yasser Arafat is very ill, and apparently people are worried that he is going to die. Other than that, not much else to say, go out and vote.

Oh yeah and 58,000 absentee ballots are missing in Florida.
58,000 Absentee Ballots Missing in Florida

Unfortunately I have heard of reports of election problems from all over.

And then there is this:
t r u t h o u t - New Florida Vote Scandal Exposed
"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."

....

"In Jacksonville, to determine if Republicans were using the lists or other means of intimidating voters, we filmed a private detective filming every "early voter" - the majority of whom are black - from behind a vehicle with blacked-out windows.

The private detective claimed not to know who was paying for his all-day services.

On the scene, Democratic Congresswoman Corinne Brown said the surveillance operation was part of a campaign of intimidation tactics used by the Republican Party to intimate and scare off African American voters, almost all of whom are registered Democrats."
Yep folks, it looks like election time is upon us.
posted by digitaljay @ 11:15 PM MST

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