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27 July 2007: Voter Caging & Housing Works, the recent story which aired on the PBS news program NOW ["one of the last bastions of serious journalism on TV"].
• In the U.S. Commision on Civil Rights report on voting irregularities it was found that there was a strong, statistically significant relationship between race and rejected ballots.1
| Ecological Regression Estimates of Statewide Ballot Rejection Rates by Race |
| |
Invalid votes* |
Overvotes |
Undervotes |
| |
Black Voters |
Nonblack Voters |
Black Voters |
Nonblack Voters |
Black Voters |
Nonblack Voters |
Punch card &
central-record counties |
19.4% |
2.2% |
17.1% |
0.8% |
2.4% |
1.3% |
| Precinct-record counties |
5.2% |
0.4% |
2.5% |
0.2% |
2.1% |
0.1% |
| All counties combined |
14.4% |
1.6% |
2.0% |
0.6% |
2.3% |
1.2% |
| * The rates for rejected votes are not exactly equal to the sum of rates for overvotes and undervotes. Some invalid votes were not subdivided into either of these two categories. Also, 13 counties do not separate recorded overvotes and undervotes. Estimates for all counties are weighted means of estimates for punch card and central-record counties and for precinct-record counties. |
• Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election2
Executive Summary
(1) a general failure of leadership from those with responsibility for ensuring
elections are properly planned and executed
(2) inadequate resources for voter education, training of poll workers, and for
Election Day trouble-shooting and problem solving
(3) inferior voting equipment and/or ballot design
(4) failure to anticipate and account for the expected high volumes of voters,
including inexperienced voters
(5) a poorly designed and even more poorly executed purge system
(6) a resource allocation system that often left poorer counties, which often were
counties with the highest percentage of black voters, adversely affected
• Previously undisclosed documents detail how Republican operatives, with the knowledge of several White House officials, engaged in an illegal, racially-motivated effort to suppress tens of thousands of votes during the 2004 presidential campaign in a state where George W. Bush was trailing his Democratic challenger, Senator John Kerry.
The documents also contain details describing how Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign officials, and at least one individual who worked for White House political adviser Karl Rove, planned to stop minorities residing in Cuyahoga County from voting on election day.
The efforts to purge voters from registration rolls was spearheaded by Tim Griffin, a former Republican National Committee opposition researcher. Griffin recently resigned from his post as interim US attorney for Little Rock Arkansas. His predecessor, Bud Cummins, was forced out to make way for Griffin.3
...still more to come
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