Florida's Voter Database Won't Be Ready for 2004 Election!

[flpoljunkie]

http://www.tallahassee.com/mld/tallahassee/news/special_packages/deja_vote/7376572.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

Posted on Sun, Nov. 30, 2003

SPECIAL REPORT: DEJA VOTE?

Hurdles remain
Florida's voter database won't be ready in time
By Nancy Cook Lauer
DEMOCRAT CAPITOL BUREAU CHIEF

Florida has spent tens of millions of dollars on new equipment, voter education and poll worker training since the 2000 election meltdown. But none of those reforms will matter if the would-be voter is denied a chance to cast a ballot to begin with.

And after spending almost $6 million to create - and then fix - a database to ensure accuracy in county voter rolls by weeding out ineligible voters, Florida will not meet a federal requirement to establish a central voter-registration database in time for the 2004 presidential election. The state now is seeking a waiver until 2006.

Many state lawmakers seem unconcerned. A Division of Elections update on how the state is implementing federal requirements earlier this month before a Senate appropriations subcommittee lasted about five minutes and drew no questions from committee members.

But Rep. Chris Smith, D-Fort Lauderdale, appointed by Gov. Jeb Bush to a task force to fix the state's election problems, called the failure to establish the central registration database "a major concern."

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[yellowcanine]

1. Time for Justice Dept to take over....

Isn't the Justice Dept required to take over the voter registration process when states fail to comply with federal requirements under the 1965 Voting Rights Act? The waiver should not be granted - There is no reason why Florida can't get its voter registration rolls in order by November 2004. If the Justice Dept can't/won't act, then a Federal Judge should.

[lysergik]

2. You want Ashcroft in control of the vote in FLA?

No thanks.. I think Florida just needs to sit this election out, they've had more than enough time to resolve any issues that they had during the infamous Selection of 2000.

Sorry Florida, your state government is a lame duck.

[Minstrel Boy]

3. No - time for the United Nations to step in!

This is another outrageous betrayal. Any other nation which tolerated this level of corruption of the voting process would not be recognized as a democracy.

[tom_paine]

4. Heinrich aSShcroft's "Ministry of Justice"

Dream on. If anything, they've probably got a "rogue" group helping Repug states disenfranchise people without leaving a paper trail.

Yeah, Heinrich's Ministry of Justice will certainly get to the bottom of it:

As they found the Right-Wing Anthrax Assassin
As they found the Plame leaker.

LOL!

[asjr]

5. Well, Gosh

James Baker is on another assignment. Do you think he will have fulfilled it in time to fix the vote for Shrub?

[proud patriot]

6. Call in the U.N. Elections Monitors

Now :grr:

[SoCalDem]

7. We all knew this, didn't we ??

Did anyone really think that Florida would even TRY to reinstate the disenfranchised voters?? Why on earth would they make it easier for Democrats' votes to count?? Between Diebold/Es&S/Sequoia machines and the continuing blacklist, that should "do it" for them again.. 200 and 2002 were the fine-tuning events..2004 will be the culmination of the full-on coup..

Jebbie cannot run again, so there is NOTHING stopping him this time around.. If we thought 2000 was a travesty..just wait til 2004.. Our media will give us NO help.. They had a golden opportunity in 2000 and they jumped onboard with the Bush gang.. Why would they leave now??

The ONLY hope we have for Florida is to have OVERWHELMING turnout AND to have people at EVERY polling place with video cameras,affadavits, and cell phones.. Every infraction must be documented and if we are lucky they may not cheat as much as they did before..

There will be NO re-count ever again, due to the machines, and the legislature will probably amend their laws to quietly slip the recount rules out..


They also have finetuned the "police" response so don't count on assembling in the streets to protest what will surely come to pass..

The Bush clan "looks" weak and puny" but they play hardball, and the ball and bat are THEIRS...