03 July 2004

Former GOP consultant pleads guilty to jamming Democratic phones on Election Day

--The former head of a Republican consulting group has pleaded guilty to jamming Democratic telephone lines in several New Hampshire cities on Election Day two years ago. The jamming involved more than 800 computer-generated calls and lasted for about 11/2 hours on Nov. 5, 2002, the day voters decided several races, including a close Senate contest between outgoing Gov. Jeanne Shaheen and GOP Rep. John E. Sununu, who 'won' by fewer than 20,000 votes. "There is, short of murder, not much that is more horrific in America than purposely trying to stop people from voting," said Raymond Buckley, vice chairman of the state Democratic Party.

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The Potential Felon Match List of the Florida Division Of Elections:

Check It For Yourself! (People For the American Way) "On July 1, People For the American Way Foundation received from the Florida Division of Elections an electronic copy of a list of more than 47,000 registered Florida voters who the Division thinks may be ineligible to vote because of felony convictions. This list is now a public record available for inspection and copying by anyone as a result of the decision on July 1 by the Leon County Circuit Court in CNN v. Florida Department of State."

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Voter-Purge List of 'Felons' Made Public

--Florida's error-prone list of 47,763 suspected 'felons' who could be tossed from voter rolls before November's presidential election contains nearly three times as many registered Democrats as Republicans. Almost half are racial minorities.

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Judge rules for media on Florida voter list -- Upholds both 'right to inspect' and 'right to copy'

--A state court judge in Florida ordered Thursday that the board of elections immediately release a list of nearly 50,000 suspected 'felons' to CNN and other news organizations that last month sued the state for access to copies of the list.

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Doubts cast on voter database

--More questions are raised about the accuracy of the state's central voter database, used to come up with a list of nearly 48,000 voters who have been identified as possible felons ineligible to vote. The accuracy of Florida's $2 million central voter database came under fire again Monday, following revelations that the list does not include the names of thousands of former criminals whose right to vote was restored prior to 1977. Since the central voter database relies on both clemency information and arrest information from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, there is the potential that someone could show up as an ineligible voter when that person actually had their rights restored.

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Watchdog group urges voting system audit

(FL) A Miami-Dade elections watchdog organization is traveling to the state capital today to turn up the heat on the governor: The group wants him to order a statewide audit of voting systems to check if the machines will work on Election Day.

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All of the excerpts and links in this post from:
Citizens for Legitimate Government >>

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