10/22/2004 05:05:23 PM|||Nathan Moore|||

There are two major frauds being perpetrated on the American electorate by the Democrats this year. One is the infusion of the draft issue onto college campuses. There is no documentation to support it - well, none but that only Democrats support it, which is not helpful to those who want to spread the rumor. The second is the complete untruth concerning black disenfranchisement in Florida in 2000. Rich Lowery addresses the latter quite effectively. Key point

The more specific allegations of attempts to disenfranchise blacks are paranoid urban legend. No one has produced any evidence of the dogs and hoses some activists have said were used to keep blacks from the polls — and if Bull Connor had really been loose in Florida, people would have noticed. Another allegation involves the so-called "felon purge list," which was meant to keep felons from voting. It had significant errors and hindered some legitimate voters at the polls, but the list wasn't a deliberate racist act. According to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 42 percent of the people on the list were black. But 48 percent of convicted felons in Florida are black. It turned out that roughly 6,000 felons correctly on the list were allowed to vote illegally anyway.

Take it and smoke it.

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