NAACP Sending Election Monitors to Florida Primary

CNSNEWS.com ^ | 8/25/04 | Susan Jones

[concerned about politics]

This sounds like Republican intimidation to me.
Make sure you say it loud, you folks in Florida. Make sure the press hears you.
If you feel "disenfranchised" in any way, you call the major networks and let them know. Scream your heads off. If you don't, this will happen down there every election.

[YaYa123]

"Mfume also is demanding that "objective Justice Department election monitors, not affiliated with either major political party," be sent to Florida to observe next week's primary."

The AshcroftJustice Dept has been monitoring elections ever since the 2000 presidential election. Mfumeissofullashit his eyes are brown!

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http://www.firstcoastnews.com/politics/articles/2002-11-04/observers.asp

"ELECTION NEWS 2002
"Justice: Observers to watch elections in Florida, 13 other states

By CURT ANDERSON
Associated Press Writer

"WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Justice Department is dispatching more than 400 people to monitor polling places in 14 states, including Florida, on Election Day to ensure compliance with federal voting laws. The observers will be watching for any signs of discrimination based on race or problems encountered by the disabled, as well as whether all eligible voters are able to cast a ballot. Widespread voting problems were reported in 2000, particularly in Florida where the results delayed by a month the declaration of a presidential winner.

In all, 432 observers, including 108 Justice Department lawyers and other personnel, will monitor elections in 26 counties. Courts have ordered federal observers in seven counties, with another eight assigned observers because they are in areas covered specifically by the Voting Rights Act. These counties are: Apache and Navajo in Arizona; Randolph, Georgia; Wayne, Michigan; Adams and Amite, Mississippi; Passaic, New Jersey; Bernalillo, Cibola, Sandoval and Socorro, New Mexico; Kings and New York, New York; Titus, Texas; and San Juan, Utah.

These observers, sent by the federal Office of Personnel Management, will be overseen by 38 Justice Department officials who will maintain contacts with local election officials should problems surface.

Seventy other Justice Department officials, most of them civil rights attorneys, will monitor elections in: San Francisco; Waterbury, Conn.; Broward, Duval, Miami-Dade, Orange and Osceola counties, Fla.; St. Louis; San Juan County, N. M.; Queens County, N.Y.; and Reading, Penn.

Complaints about possible discrimination in voting can be made to the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division at 1-800-253-3931"

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[Dionysius]

These "monitors" will be well armed -- with 10,000 cartons of cigarettes and 12 old buses.

[Steve_Seattle]

I think someone should be observing Mfume and his boys. It wouldn't surprise me to see them try something crooked.

[DustyMoment]

This is getting ridiculous. By the time all the special interests get done, there will be more monitors at each polling station than voters.

Word of warning, if I have to push between monitors to take my ballot to a booth, someone will get the crap knocked out of them and I will probably get to spend a free night in jail.

[ohioman]

You got that right! Queasy Fumes and the NAACP are nothing more than the new KLAN with the tan. He ought to give David Duke a call for tips on being a more effective racist.

[ridesthemiles]

If the majority of voters who had trouble were other than white---Please tell me how the "leaders" of this same group can identify any complicated problems?

Mfume needs to take a broom to his own back steps and clean up his group and Jesse (never met a person I didn't want to shakedown)Jackson.

This is leaving the fox in charge of the henhouse.

[ridesthemiles]

Then maybe they won't object if the Klan sends election monitors to Philadelphia, St. Louis, and Detroit.""

Cripes- Don't leave out Chicago and Los Angeles.

[ridesthemiles]

I can hear it now:

Mfume: I SEE DEAD PEOPLE!! LET THEM VOTE!!

[beaversmom]

I've requested him once before today. He's needed again. Aw Jeez guy please report for duty.

[Rockingham]

The current controversy is fueled by this year's disputed mayoral election in Orlando, which had credible allegations of fraud and irregularity swirling around absentee ballots handled by a longtime Black vote broker known for questionable practices. He claims to be a civic minded activist, but demands cash from candidates as the price of his support and his absentee ballots are often problematic. Republicans are usually not solicited for such efforts, and, when they are, Florida GOP advice is to decline because of the odor of vote-buying.

After the local paper reported the fraud allegations, Florida Department of Law Enforcement agents were sent in to investigate and -- horror of horrors -- wore their guns when interviewing witnesses, as policy requires them to do. I surmise that worry about potential criminal charges is spurring the accusations of intimidation, which also have value in the larger context of ginning up claims against Florida's election process as part of the Democratic Party's turnout and election contest strategies.

[Baby Bear]

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