Regarding the cases of the 3 FL counties to be scapegoated for the year 2000 election disaster, a Long Island Newsday columnist says,
“None [of the charges against the counties] involves the mayhem created by machines that couldn't read votes properly and resulted, according to several independent studies, in African-American voters being far more likely to have their votes discarded than were whites. None involves Duval County, which encompasses Jacksonville – where, of 27,000 votes that were thrown out, two-fifths were from just three voting districts that are predominantly black.
“None involves the infamous statewide purge of alleged felons from the rolls [...]
“[...] Washington and Florida officials say the charges involve failure to provide foreign-language assistance to Haitian and Hispanic immigrants in counties where it is required by law.
“Two of the three cases involve providing help at the polls for Hispanics, a group Republicans have targeted for enlistment to party ranks. We are to believe this is not politics but coincidence.
“[...] George W. Bush's chief complaints about Florida have been that the media called the race too early on election night, and Gore asked for re-counts.”
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