Election 2000

An Angolan friend of Joe Wilson remarked: "One candidate loses the popular vote by over 500,000 ballots, but his brother is governor of the one state where the outcome is too close to call. The effort to count the ballots is disrupted by the Washington staffs of elected representatives from the candidate's party, and the court that ultimately adjudicates the outcome is made up largely by people appointed by the candidate's father. Sounds a lot like an election in Africa."; Joe Wilson: Politics of Truth; pg 281.

"In the months leading up to the November (2000) balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his secretary of state, Katherine Harris, ordered local elections supervisors to purge fifty-eight thousand voters from registries on grounds they were felons not entitled to vote in Florida. As it turns out, only a handful of these voters were felons. The voters on this scrub list were, notably, African Americans (about 54 percent), and most of the others wrongly barred from voting were white and Hispanic Democrats." from Greg Palast's essay in "Into the Buzzsaw".

The 2000 election was a victory for corporatism over democracy.

The demonstrators were GOP operatives flown to Florida to win the recount street battle. They included Capitol Hill staffers, Bush-Cheny campaign workers, and lobbyists. "all seasoned operatives, " Blakeman later said. They had been deployed by Blakeman to disrupt the outcome. American Psychosis, a Historical Investigation of How the Republican Party Went Crazy by David Corn pg 227

Doubts about the Florida election were cleared up by a partisan Supreme Court. Think that's justice ? Remember that the Supreme Court can't tell the difference between speech and money, and they can't tell the difference between people and corporations. Each of these decisions, as well as the one deciding the Bush election, does damage to democracy and favors the corporate agenda. The partisan Supreme Court has no business deciding elections.

When election irregularities became obvious, Congress took action and passed the HAVA (Help America Vote Act). Although the; HAVA did little to actually address election problems, it likely made them worse

Greg Palast reported extensively on how the 2000 election was rigged in Florida. The partisan Supreme Court decided it in one of the most disastrous decisions ever made.

Precisely how the Bush team stole the Florida election is documented. Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, who was co-chair of the Bush campaign in Florida and a close associate of Bush's brother, deliberately blocked careful checking of the list of felons, with the result that thousands of Black people who were not felons and were legally entitled to vote were blocked from voting.

Recount (the Movie.)

Unprecedented.org

Jeffrey Toobin, Too Close to Call: The Thirty-Six-Day Battle to Decide the 2000 Election, (2002) ISBN 0-375-76107-1

Supreme Injustice, How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000, Alan M. Dershowitz