Reply #13: In the book 'Supreme Injustice' , Alan M. Dershowitz,2001, [View All]

[icymist]

on page 213, footnote 20, outlines an investigative report from The Guardian(London)explains how Florida Sec. of State Harris "hired a conservative group to purge all ex-felons from the voter rolls. The group eliminated black voters with a vengeance, including some blacks whose voting rights had been restored, others who had been convicted of mere misdemeanors and were eligible to vote, and still others who were convicted in other states and may also have been eligible to vote."
Then something else happened. Tactics used to suppress the votes of the black populace not seen since the time of the southern segregation days played into this election as Dershowitz describes "Other blacks who remained on the voter lists were kept from voting or having their votes counted with tactics that ranged from the use of old voting machines in minority areas (which produced high levels of uncounted votes in those areas) to the employment of police roadblocks and other forms of intimidation in black areas on Election Day."
What I, personally, find most troubling is the complacency of the American people towards an administration that used such tactics in the past. With the 2004 election just on the horizon to be conducted with newly conceived, untested, and (reportedly) error prone touch screen voting machines, the question that should be on the minds of the masses is 'do you trust these people?'