"Bruce J. Richman" wrote in message
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Art wrote:


"Bruce J. Richman" wrote in message
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And as another questionable tactic, the Republican Secretary of State
appears
to be trying to disqualify voters in several predominantly Democratic
counties,
such as Broward (Ft. Lauderdale area) for the following petty
technicality -
not checking off a box on the voter registration form in which the
registrant
affirms he is a citizen of the USA. This would not be a problem,
except,
as
has been widely reported in local newspapers, many of the se registrants
have
SIGNED THE REGISTRATION FORM IN WHICH THEY SWEAR THAT THEY ARE CITIZENS
OF
THE
USA. Therefore, trying to use the fact that they overlooked checking a
box off
in whch the same information is required is obviously just another
attempt
to
decrease voter registration, especially in counties such as Broward
which
have
in past elections voted in significant majorities for the Democratic
candidates.

Sorry Bruce, you are having a major loss of common sensehere


Sorry Art, but you've committed a serious error in assuming facts not in
evidence. Your premise is seriously flawed, since nothing in what you're
responding too re. voter registrations (as described above) ha anything to
do
with African Americans per se. Since none of this has anything to do with
African Americans per se -]i.e. the Florida Secretary of State's efforts
to
disqualify voters who failed to check off a box on the registration form,
your
comments are not relevant in this case.


The articles I read covering this are mentioning race,as are Democratic
operatives poinitng to the racial component.


So, lets put my comments to Broward Count residents. How come they are so
unaware ofthe check off box and so aware of the affidavit?

What you've done is apparently confuse my comments about Governor Jeb Bush
trying to delay and/or block the restoration of voting rights to felons
that
have completed their jail sentences and are now free. That population is
predominantly African-American, but this has nothing to do with the other
scenario re. voting registration forms.


ok, so how is it that are Broward residents are so unaeware of the
check off box, ahile being so astute about the affidavit?



You seem to be saying that African Americans are particularly inept at
checkin off boxes, compared to other people, and yet, they suddenly
become competent when they read the affidavit at the bottom of the form.


You've misread what I've written and somehow managed to confuse the
African-American population of ex-felons (which Gov. Bush has tried to
block
from getting their voting rights restored) - with the voting registration
form
fiasco concerning the Secretary of State - which deals to some extent with
counties such as Broward which are heavily democratic.


ok, answer the question about how Broward people can be so stupid
and yet be so astute at the same time.


It just so happens that the only thing that the 2 populations have in
common -
i.e. African-American ex-felons and voters blocked from registering in
certain
counties because of minor registration forms mistakes (later corrected via
sworn signature) - is that both populations tend to vote Democratic.

Read what I said about the registration forms and the Secretary of State
again.
Where is there any mention of African Americans? Answer - there isn't.



You are saying that those (apparantly mostly African Americans)
who are too inept to read the information on the registration form
regarding
checking off the box, somehow happen to know exactly what they are doing
when they sign and swear teh affidavit that they are citizens!!!



See my comments above. You've made a signficant, serious error in
confounding
the 2 separate scenarios I described concerning possible elimination of
voters
from the 2004 elections.

You still have to answer the thrust of the question.
You waxed poetic about their affirming their citizenship
in the affidavit, and that they ignored the same question which required
a check off in an answer box. You are making a false
assumption about whether or not they really understood, or even
read, the affidavit. their lackadaisical attention to the affidavit
is evidenced by their ignoring the check box.
the