Posted on 07/16/2004 8:34:58 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Rev. Jackson, Civil Rights and Political Leaders to Announce Plans to Help Protect the Black Vote in the 2004 presidential election
WHO:
Rev. Jesse L. Jackson Sr., founder and president of the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition; Greg Palast, author of The New York Times Best Seller, "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy" and the award- winning investigative journalist who broke the story of the false felon purge in Florida; Melanie Campbell, executive director and CEO of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation; Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown and Fla. State Sen. Tony Hill.
WHAT:
Press Conference
WHEN:
Friday, July 16 2004 Noon (EST)
WHERE:
National Press Club (Murrow Room 13th Floor)
529 14th St., N.W., Washington
WHY:
To discuss the disenfranchisement of the African- American vote in Florida, Illinois and other states across the nation. The civil rights leaders and politicians will also announce plans to prevent votes from being spoiled and lists from being purged prior to this year's presidential election.
By now, everyone is familiar with the problems that changed the outcome of the Florida vote in 2000 -- false felon purges, misleading butterfly ballots, police roadblocks and the refusal to count every vote.
What is not widely known is that the state of Florida -- though it did make a mockery of our democracy in 2000 -- does not stand alone with its problems. Across the nation, 1.9 million "spoiled" ballots were never counted in 2000. And of these ballots, more than half were cast by African-Americans.
"This is a shameful statistic that deserves to be more widely publicized," Rev. Jackson said. "It's a travesty that four decades after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 one million African-American votes were not counted in 2000. We must come up with a solution to help make sure every vote is counted in 2004."
Yeah, the rats got caught trying to fix the vote.
I think Ozzy said it best the other night, but with the wrong pictures.
This is just a cover to allow them to manipulate the process, and if that fails, to have the same old mantra of "stolen election." This was a favorite ploy of the communist in eastern Europe after the USSR fell apart.
Jesse's going to help black conservatives vote?
the democrats control those counties.
so where's the bitch?
Somebody has to protect the American right of:
One Man, Two Votes.
[and Dead Man, One Vote]
For decades these democrat districts have been left to their own devices, unchallenged by cowardly republicans who didn't complain because they didn't want to be unjustly labeled racist bigots.
Oiliphant will run the program.
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