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Facts on Florida


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Facts gathered by various news sources, yet basically ignored by major news networks:
• 3,000 ballots in Palm Beach County mistakenly marked for Buchanan.
• 10,000 not punched for either candidate according to machine read results
• 19,000 double punched for Buchanan and Gore
• Half of the ballots thrown out were in precincts with majority Black or elderly voters according to a survey by the Palm Beach Post.
• 10,000 primarily African-American voters turned away in Seminole County; 22,000 in Duvalle County (Jacksonville) after they registered at Motor Vehicles but were never added to the rolls.
• Leon County (Tallahassee): Racial profiling. State troopers stopped people, them for up to two hours and searched their cars.
• Charges of African-American voters showing up at the polls and being told to go to a different place to vote.
• African Americans singled out for criminal background checks. Forced to show photo ID cards while white voters voted unhampered.




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