Reconmike, from lower on the same page that you posted from, but did not link:
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http://rangevoting.org/PresFraud.html
....George W. Bush:
Bush's victory over Gore in the 2000 election depended upon a number of fraudulent techniques in Florida (which he officially won by 537 votes), without which Gore would have won by tens of thousands of votes. Bush was aided by the fact that his brother Jeb was Florida Governor; his campaign co-chair Katherine Harris was the top Florida election-supervising official (secretary of state); and 4 of the 9 members of the US Supreme Court has been appointed by Bush's father (or when Bush senior was VP) – all 4 voted for Bush in the showdown, along with Justice Kennedy in the 5-4 decision. (7 of the 9 Supremes had been appointed by Republican presidents; the 2 others voted against Bush in the decision.)
(Bush also had won the Republican primary versus McCain by pulling ahead in Carolina with the aid of sudden closings of 21 of the 135 polls in Greenville County despite court order for them to stay open, which McCain & Campbell tagged as suspicious.)
We'll only mention a few techniques. (Some more.) Florida Blacks voted 93% for Gore, so a top goal of Bush's team was to stop blacks from voting or eliminate black votes from the count.
First, the famous Florida Felon's list. By Florida law, felons could not vote. Conveniently, 54% of the names on the "felon's list" were black, although the state as a whole was about 12% black. Over 300 "felons" on the "list" had printed conviction "dates" in the future (including as late as 2007) but that was of course just the tip of the iceberg. Tallahassee (Leon County) election supervisor Ion Sancho, after checking the 694 listed in his area, found only 33 were actually convicted criminals, an error rate of 95%! Madison County's elections supervisor Linda Howell refused the purge list after she found herself listed on it. DBT On-Line, the company which had been paid over 400 times the previous company's rate to prepare the list (and was awarded the contract with no competitive bidding), was specifically instructed not to perform rudimentary identifying checks (such as social security number matching – nor even listing these numbers) – but the race of every felon was explicitly listed. Consequently far more names were purged than the number listed, but only if they were people of the right race. Before the next election (2004) the news organization CNN requested to examine Florida's new and "corrected" felons list, but that request was denied. After they won that permission on 1 July 2004 in a lawsuit, the list – again with every one of the over 47,000 voters on it identified by race – was found, amazingly, to contain fewer than 0.1% Hispanics, in a state where nearly 1 in 5 residents is Hispanic. (The Hispanic vote was pro-Bush.) And the Miami Herald reported on July 2 that it found more than 2100 names erroneously included on the list because they had received clemency. (According to Jeb Bush, these things were "an oversight and mistake.")
Second, after Gore contested the election, the absentee ballots, especially the late ones, became crucial since they were the only class that had not yet been counted. Here's how the late-arriving absentee ballots got counted:
In pro-Bush counties: 530 accepted, 523 rejected and hence uncounted.
In pro-Gore counties: 150 accepted, 666 rejected.
If you were black in FL 2000, your chances of having your vote "spoiled" and hence uncounted was 10 times higher than if you were white – and that's assuming you hadn't already been purged by the felon list. This was due to systematic manipulation of voting machines in Florida counties and precincts on a precinct by precinct basis.
To learn more about US election fraud, we recommend Campbell's, Gumbel's, Feinberg's, Saltman's, and Palast's books.
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We cannot do much about the 47 years old Kennedy election fraud, at this point, Reconmike....35 years ago, the Chicago Tribune seems to have exposed the corrupt political machine that caused it.
We can, however, investigate the corrupt, election stealing Bush administration currently still in office, and respond to evidence of law breaking with indictments, prosecutions, and impeachment investigations, and restore the DOJ to a voting rights enforcement agency, instead of a vote suppression arm of the republican party, as it seems to be, now.