I sent guns to Elian I will send my gay task force on everyone cause....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa call a waaaaaaaaambulance...I did not win.
Posted on 09/12/2002 6:10:15 PM PDT by summer
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
SEPTEMBER 10, 2002
CONTACT: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force
Miami Action and Media Center: Jubi Headley of the NGLTF,
202-320-1869
Ballot Debacle Again in Florida Election: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Demands Investigation Into Apparent Voter Fraud
MIAMI - September 10 - In today's Miami-Dade election that featured a historic gay rights ballot measure, registered voters have once again been denied the right to cast votes. Rampant breakdowns in new touch screen voting machines, failure to open polling places in a timely manner, untrained personnel, and refusal by election officials to provide paper "provisional" ballots when voting machines have malfunctioned have left voters and observers alike stunned and angered.
Worst of all, numerous complaints have been registered by voters who went to the polls to vote NO on the anti-gay ballot measure, but were prevented from doing so. In some precincts, there was no ability to vote on any initiatives. In others, voters have complained that when they voted NO on the anti-gay ballot measure, YES votes appear to have registered instead. Many polling places were not operative until after 1 p.m., more than 5 hours later than the scheduled 7 a.m.
"In 2000, African Americans in southern Florida were denied the right to vote and to have their votes counted. In 2002, the gay and Jewish communities are facing the same inexcusable fate," said Lorri L. Jean, executive director of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.
While irregularities have been reported in precincts countywide, Miami's Jewish and gay communities have been disproportionately hit by voter machine malfunction and other irregularities. These communities represent some of the strongest opposition to a measure on the ballot that, if passed, would remove discrimination protections based on sexual orientation from the County's human rights ordinance.
"How many times must historically oppressed communities be denied the right to participate in elections under the watch of Jeb and George W. Bush?" demanded Jean. "Hundreds and potentially thousands of people in Miami-Dade have been unable to vote today because of malfunctioning machines and then have been provided no alternative means of voting. This is not a partisan failure, this is a leadership failure."
"After the last Florida voting fiasco, Jeb and George Bush promised the American public that they would make every vote count," Jean continued. "They have had two years to create a system that guaranteed full participation in the democratic process to all people and, as we now know, they have failed to deliver on their promise."
Therefore, NGLTF is demanding that the Governor employ all available communication devices and personnel at the state's disposal to let voters know that voting hours have now been extended until 9 p.m. and to encourage them to return to the polls.
"Further, we are demanding full and immediate investigations by the Governor's office and the U.S. Department of Justice into the failures of the Florida election system so that the gay community and indeed all Floridians will never again be denied that opportunity to vote and have those votes counted," Jean concluded.
I sent guns to Elian I will send my gay task force on everyone cause....waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa call a waaaaaaaaambulance...I did not win.
Actually... I was rather surprised with the speed of these new machines. They were annoyingly slow, kind of like they were programmed in an interpretive language which had to be compiled depending on which choice the voter made.
The "Cast Ballot" function also took 2+ seconds and I thought I heard the sound of a card being punched
Voter turnout in the County was about 37%, with the Hispanics voting about 75% against, the blacks 50% and the non-hispanic whites pushing it over the edge in Pinecrest, Coarl Gables and South Miami.
That this issue and others would be scheduled for a vote on what in effect was Democratic primary day is one more example of the fraud that is the Dade conty elections board.
So is Clinton's statement about being "alone" with Monica Lewinsky. The president in the Oval Office is never really "alone."
The implication is that the Bush brothers conspired to prevent black voters' ballots from counting in the elections. That's a crock, and I hope -- for your sake -- you know that.
A poll conducted for The Herald and NBC 6 last week showed the repeal being defeated by about 20 percentage points -- a wider margin than the apparent 6 percentage point difference on Tuesday.
Bias and wishful thinking in action, no doubt.
Last election we had Dems and Greens
Now it's Dems, Greens and Queens
Hope all is well in Napoli. :-)
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