[WarrenC]

Contrary to Mr. Daschle, in the 2000 Florida election minority turnout was much higher than normal. I forget the exact numbers but if there had been the normal minority turnout in FL in 2000, G.W. Bush would have won the state by several hundred thousand votes.

[BohDaThone]

Actually, the minority turnout was not unusually high, relative to the non-minority. The erroneous information was based on the same bad exit polls that gave the state to Gore. Florida codes voters by race, so when the actual figures came out, black voting (casting a ballot, counted or not) as a PERCENTAGE OF REGISTERED VOTERS was about 4% lower than the state average.