Who Can Really Say?

Vote, and Vote Often

A few weeks back I was in an email debate exchange with a friend over whether Foul Evil Bush "stole" the FL election by denying thousands of Blacks the vote via the infamous felon's list, which was used to purge convicted felons from the voter rolls and suffered from false positive hits. So having recently visited that canard, when I read Bob Herbert's column this morning in the NY Times I figured to write something about it tonight.

Herbert recounts how some Storm Troopers State Police (from the FL Departement of Law Enforcement, which reports to Jeb Bush!) have "gone into the homes" and "interrogated" some elderly voters as part of what he calls (but never explains why) an "odd 'investigation'". Neither does he explains what's odd about investigating potential voter fraud involving absentee ballots in the recent Orlando mayoral election.

But I'm late (enough) to the parade that instead I'll refer you to Joe Gandelman's bit on it, where an update catches James Joyner saying about what I wanted to say.

Oliver Willis, though, buys it all hook, line, and sinker:

If you guys keep trampling on our right to vote, we won't even consider voting for your party, let alone actually voting for you.

Does he really mean that black's right to vote is dependent upon voter fraud?

Posted by Peter at August 16, 2004 06:59 PM