Jeb vs. the BBC

28th November 2007

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posted in Corruption, Impeachment, Politics by themaiden |

The video is from 2006. It isn’t new, but it isn’t really old news either, especially with another election coming.

Things to watch for in the film:

Telling, though circumstantial, is the reaction of Clayton Roberts to questions early in the video, about time 1:30.
Database Technologies, a company with ties to the Republican Party (7:25), created voter lists that were used to exclude Florida voters.
- They were paid millions for ‘manual checking’ of names. This was never done (4:00).
- They generated a list of 8,000 names of felons which was then used to exclude voters. Felons cannot vote, you see.
  - The list came from Texas, where where George Bush was Governor.
  - The list contained mostly black, Democrats. It was also almost entirely wrong (4:00).
- So DBT generated another list. This one had over 58,000 names of black, Democrat voter.
  - The one county that checked the names manually found that it was about 95% wrong (4:45).
- DBT generated these lists in such a way that the name of any black person anywhere in the United States who was a felon could be used to eliminate a black Florida voter.
  - All that was required was that the felon and the voter share a surname and a similar date of birth (5:55).
  - Roberts admits not asking if the names were verified (13:30). DBT claims that Roberts and the State of Florida asked for more names than actually verified as being felons (7:45).
Then there is the vote counting.
- Palm Beach voting machines misread 27,000 ballots (9:15). The manual recount was stopped.
- In Gabston, a heavily Democratic county, machines failed to count one in eight votes (9:20). That recount was also stopped.
Oh, and Katherine Harris, who was in charge of Florida’s vote count and who declared Bush the winner of Florida’s electoral votes, was also co-chair of George Bush’s Presidential campaign (9:45).

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1 On November 28th, 2007, JR said:

I’m on dial up at the moment so I can’t watch this, but I’ve seen this flick and it’s about the 2000 elections, not 2004. But what can you if this stuff comes out say, six months after an election? Are the results nullifed? Is this a recount? If a few partisan loyalists spend three months in country-club jail to get their guy elected, is that a small price to pay? Of course if you put enough partisan loyalists in the government, say, in the DOJ and FEC, the issue of legality would never come up now would it?

Having procedures in place to deal with election fraud after the fact could create problems too though. What if you did redo the election six months after the fact? What has happened in those six months? How have the voters reacted to the White House’s agenda? The second election would be about diferent issues than the first, and that sets the groundwork for holding onto evidence of election fraud until a President’s approval ratings are just low enough so that he would not be elected a second time. I believe they call that coup.