It’s the Corruption, Stupid
“…What happened [recently] in Florida was that the Secretary of State got caught promulgating a list of so-called Florida Felons who were not eligible to vote. When this decision of hers was questioned, and investigated (by, I think, news media) it was found that many of the people on her list were indeed not felons, and they should not have been prohibited from being on the voters’ list, and it so happened that there were several tens of thousands of African-Americans on the list (more likely to vote Democratic, I think, in general), and I think less than 70 Hispanic Americans (who are more likely in Florida, at least, to vote for Republicans), so you’ve got maybe 26,000 African-Americans and 68 Hispanics, that doesn’t seem right because if you look at the prison system you don’t have that kind of disparity. So, when this was questioned, she and Governor Jeb Bush had to back down…”
-Former President Jimmy Carter
Fresh Air, 21 October 2004
Tom Chappell wrote:
Industry Figure Jeff Lorenzini points out that This American Life had an outstanding piece by Jack Hitt on the election corruption this week, which should be available from their web site for free.
Posted 04 Nov 2004 at 10:50 pm ¶