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12. Jeb's felon purge" is only part of the story
Sun Jan 4, 2026, 11:25 PM
Jan 4

What really made the 2000 election theft possible was the hand duplication and counting of 10,000 absentee ballots in the most heavily republican counties in Florida which favored Bush by 2 to 1. Florida law in 2000 allowed for the hand duplication and counting of ballots that the counting machines couldn't read in order to comply with the requirement that all votes where the intent of the voter is clear be counted. The county election supervisors were required to keep detailed logs of every ballot that was counted in this manner. The Florida law that allowed for the hand duplication and counting of ballots that the counting machines couldn't read applied to all ballots that the counting machines couldn't read and not just absentee ballots located in Florida's most heavily republican voting counties. These hand duplicated absentee ballots are in the Jeb Bush-Katherine Harris vote count and are what made it possible for Jeb's brother to be able to steal the 2000 election. The only media outlet to ever report this story was the Orlando Sentinel in an article on 5/7/2001 titled, "Mangled ballots resurrected".

BTW, most of the voters illegally removed in Jeb's felon purge were African-American democrats.

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