State Attempted to Prevent Thousands of Blacks from Voting - 2004
The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights said Thursday it will ask the Department of Justice to investigate whether Florida's use of a flawed database to remove felons from the voter rolls was a deliberate attempt to block some voters from casting ballots. Commissioners, who heard Thursday from the architects of the database as well as its critics, want to know whether the overwhelmingly Democratic and blacks voters on the list were targeted for removal. "If it was intentional, it may well have been a criminal violation of the Civil Rights Act,'' said Commissioner Christopher Edley Jr. ``It's not just about a sloppy database, it's not just about bureaucracy strapped for resources. It's about the deprivation of a fundamental civil right.'' [more] and [more] and [more]
- Hood wants investigation of felon database [more]
- Pictured above: Congressowman Corrine Brown Censured by U.S. Congress For Saying 2000 Election Was Stolen; Comments Struck from Record, Prevented from Speaking. After a measure barring any federal official from requesting that the United Nations formally observe the U.S. elections on Nov. 2. was passed, Rep. Brown got HEATED. She said, "I come from Florida, where you and others participated in what I call the United States coup d'etat. We need to make sure it doesn't happen again," Brown said. "Over and over again after the election when you stole the election, you came back here and said, 'Get over it.' No, we're not going to get over it. And we want verification from the world." [more] and [more]