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Jun. 21st, 2004 at 3:20 PM

"In the 2000 presidential election, 1.9 million Americans cast ballots that no one counted. "Spoiled votes" is the technical term. The pile of ballots left to rot has a distinctly dark hue: About 1 million of them -- half of the rejected ballots -- were cast by African Americans although black voters make up only 12 percent of the electorate.

This year, it could get worse."

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animikwaan and her posting a hyperlink to this article:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/06/20/ING2976LG61.DTL

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ehanui

Jun. 21st, 2004 03:08 pm (UTC)

The DieBold company voting machines, used in 37 states, including Florida had some problems in the 2000 elections. Through e-mails exchanged among Diebold employees, one employee reported that in a Florida Precint, one machine gave Al Gore a negative 16,000 votes. Supposedly he lost Florida by 500 votes. If this is true, it means he actually won the Florida vote.

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haolegirl

Jun. 21st, 2004 03:14 pm (UTC)

That doesn't surprise me. Kathryn Harris probably played a role in the fiasco. She's a Republican and at the time she was the Secretary of the State of Florida at the time....

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