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Carter foresees unfair vote in Florida
AFP ^ | 09/27/2004

Posted on 09/27/2004 7:27:50 AM PDT by Phlap

WASHINGTON (AFP) - A repetition of problems that plagued the 2000 US presidential election is likely, former US president and veteran elections monitor Jimmy Carter said, charging that "basic international requirements" for a fair vote are missing in Florida.

Reforms passed in the wake of the debacle have not been implemented due to lack of funding and political disputes, Carter observed in a hotly-worded opinion piece in Monday's Washington Post.

"The disturbing fact is that a repetition of the problems of 2000 now seems likely," he said.

"Some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida," including non-partisan electoral officials and uniformity in voting procedures, he said.

Florida's top election official four years ago also chaired the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign in the state, and her successor is showing "the same strong bias," Carter charged.

"A fumbling attempt has been made recently to disqualify 22,000 African Americans (likely Democrats), but only 61 Hispanics (likely Republicans), as alleged felons," he said.

Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood has also appeared eager to get independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader (news - web sites) on this year's state ballot, "knowing that two-thirds of his votes in the previous election came at the expense" of Democrat Al Gore (news - web sites), Carter went on.

"She ordered Nader's name be included on absentee ballots even before the state Supreme Court ruled on the controversial issue," Carter said.

Florida's governor, President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s brother, has "taken no steps to correct these departures from principles of fair and equal treatment or to prevent them in the future," he said.

"It is unconscionable to perpetuate fraudulent or biased electoral practices in any nation," Carter wrote.

"With reforms unlikely at this late stage of the election, perhaps the only recourse will be to focus maximum public scrutiny on the suspicious process in Florida."

The Carter Center has monitored more than 50 international elections, most recently in Venezuela and Indonesia.

Carter, a Democrat, led a bi-partisan commission charged with recommending changes to US electoral processes following the 2000 vote, ultimately decided by the US Supreme Court, which halted recounts of contested ballots in Florida after a weeks-long draw.


TOPICS: Front Page News; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: jimmycarter; worstprezever
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To: IamConservative

LOL


81 posted on 09/27/2004 8:02:05 AM PDT by Freepdonia (Victory is Ours!)
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To: RockinRight
Why anyone listens to one word this babbling old liberal idiot says is a mystery to me.

He should just sit down, shut up and be happy that because of Clinton, he's not considered the worst president in US history. (Although he is).

82 posted on 09/27/2004 8:02:08 AM PDT by ClintonBeGone (Take the first step in the war on terror - defeat John Kerry)
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To: Freepdonia
I foresee Carter making an ass of himself as usual.

He made an ass out of the whole country in the late 1970's.

83 posted on 09/27/2004 8:04:36 AM PDT by RockinRight (W stands for whoop-a**!!!)
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To: Phlap

.....Some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida.....

Strangely believe it, there are no international requirements applicable in Florida.


84 posted on 09/27/2004 8:04:47 AM PDT by bert (Peace is only halftime !)
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To: Chewbacco

Carter, not intent with being the worst president of the past 100 years, now wants to assure he is also the worst ex-president ever. Odd, the media did everything in its power to build him into a bigger-than-life figure who was "reinventing the job of ex-president." What a friggin joke.

Who knew? Billy was the brighter brother.


85 posted on 09/27/2004 8:06:13 AM PDT by SugarLandTexas
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To: Cicero
He gave North Korea the Bomb. He gave Iran to the Ayatollahs.
He gave away the Panama Canal and also let the yellow-bellied, draft dodging scumbags back from Canada.
86 posted on 09/27/2004 8:06:24 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: All

There he goes again...

Has Carter not picked up on the fact that he is the worst President in the 20th century if not in all of American history?

The guy is a dolt with no clue.

Go back to running Habitat for Humanity. Thats your only success.


87 posted on 09/27/2004 8:07:49 AM PDT by NYURepublican
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To: EDINVA
Jimmy Carter has inhaled too much drywall dust while building all the houses for Habitat for Humanity. It has clogged up his brain cells.
88 posted on 09/27/2004 8:08:38 AM PDT by NorseWood
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To: Phlap

89 posted on 09/27/2004 8:09:02 AM PDT by TBarnett34 (The Democrats: 9/10 girlie-men in a 9/11 world)
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To: evad

Any vote that does not elect Kerry is deemed bigoted, biased and unfair by the likes of the maggot Carter.


90 posted on 09/27/2004 8:10:38 AM PDT by Lion Den Dan
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To: Phlap
"Some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida," including non-partisan electoral officials and uniformity in voting procedures, he said.

That's right, Jimmah, there's too dang many DEMOCRATS in charge of the voting districts! They're the ones who exacerbated the problems in Palm Beach County in the 2000 election!

91 posted on 09/27/2004 8:15:33 AM PDT by SuziQ (Bush in 2004-Because we MUST!!!)
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To: Phlap

Billy was the most sane of the Carter clan.


92 posted on 09/27/2004 8:15:37 AM PDT by lonestar (Me, too!--Weinie)
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To: KarlInOhio

In Florida we are required to have two forms of ID in order to vote.


93 posted on 09/27/2004 8:17:11 AM PDT by Humvee
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To: Phlap
I'll tell you about international requirements. I have lived in a couple of other countries and know people from many others. There is not an other country where you do not need A SERIOUS FORM OF I.D. IN ORDER TO VOTE.

This is the EASIEST country in which to enter a fraudulent vote that I have EVER seen, Peanuthead.

94 posted on 09/27/2004 8:18:11 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: SugarLandTexas

Blindfolded I can tell this already, Carter will declare--

Venezuela's elections are credible, American elections are not.

Carter is "internationalist" scum. Everything America does is bad and wrong, everything the U.N. does is good and right.

Only a fool (or a Dem or a Carter) would think that the U.N. or the international community has America's best interests at heart.

The U.N. is out to weaken and destroy America, that's why they support Kerry! That's why they gave this idiot a Peace prize! Not because they LIKE us, it's because they HATE us!!

Stupidity really pisses me off.


95 posted on 09/27/2004 8:20:08 AM PDT by Chewbacco (Well, if ribbons and medals are identical, then by his own admission he did throw away his medals!!)
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To: thucydides
There are no "international requirements" for an election. The United States, like every other nation, determines the matter for itself, disappointing as this may be to the goo-goo former president.

In fact, the U.S. Constitution leaves the matter up to the individual states:

Article II

Section 1. The executive power shall be vested in a President of the United States of America. He shall hold his office during the term of four years, and, together with the Vice President, chosen for the same term, be elected, as follows:

Each state shall appoint, in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.

96 posted on 09/27/2004 8:20:51 AM PDT by cloud8
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To: Guillermo

"Uh yeah, Jimmah, umm, the Palm Beach, Broward and Dade elections officials were all Democrats, all proven to have been trying to create Gore votes out of thin air."

Excellent point. I was thinking, "here we go again". Their guy can't win legitimately so it's time to start the whole disenfranchised voter argument again. These people are pathetic. Mark my words, they are laying in wait and we will have another election 2000.


97 posted on 09/27/2004 8:22:15 AM PDT by conservativebabe
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To: Phlap

The only explanation I can think of is that Carter fell off the roof of one of his Habitat for Humanity houses and landed on his head.


98 posted on 09/27/2004 8:23:16 AM PDT by steve-b (I put sentences together suspiciously well for a righty blogger.)
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To: Phlap

Liberal Dork Awards 2004

99 posted on 09/27/2004 8:26:06 AM PDT by HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity
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To: Cicero
Since then I have concluded that he is a malignant fool. He never saw a dictator he didn't like. He gave North Korea the Bomb. He gave Iran to the Ayatollahs. He tried to ensure that Saddam would get Kuwait and that the Sandanistas would still rule in Nicaragua.

And he gave away the Panama Canal back to it's rightful Owners, the Panamanians. Or was it Hutchison Wampoa, which just so happens to be a front group for the Chinese Red Army? It's the Chinese. Carter gave away the Panama Canal to the Chinese Red Army. Thanks, Jimmy. We'll remember you every time our ships have to sail an extra 8,000 miles to get to the next world hotspot.

100 posted on 09/27/2004 8:26:10 AM PDT by boycottliberalhollywood.com (www.boycottliberalhollywood.com - www.twoamericas.us)
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