by Stephen Crockett opednews.com
There is a growing sense in American politics that our system of elections has failed in very fundamental ways in recent years. It has become clear that the voter rolls have been seriously manipulated to advance the political influence of the Republican Party in ways that are certainly unethical and likely illegal. The vote counting process has become corrupted in many ways. These issues gained national attention in 2000 but the remedies proposed often were blocked or twisted to make the situations worse.
The False Felon Purge Tactic, revealed by Greg Palast in his book, Best Democracy Money Can Buy , may become common practice in future elections. The tactic was employed by using the powers of the Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris to hire a politically connected company to generate lists of possible felons that local voting boards were suppose to kick off the voter rolls. The problem was that almost everyone on the list generated were not felons but were legal Democratic voters. The company was overpaid in a No-Bid process. The Governor
