FACING SOUTH: A progressive Southern news report on minority voting

[Carolab]

This newsletter published in the southern delta region of North
Carolina by the Institute for Southern Studies, is a good prospective to
read. This is a good analysis of the voter suppression techniques used in
Ohio, which southerners are very familiar with. But the author does not
seem to have any grip on the electronic fraud factor.

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>F A C I N G S O U T H
>
> A progressive Southern news report
>
> January 19, 2005 - Issue 101
>
> Facing South is published 30 times a year by the Institute for Southern
> Studies and Southern Exposure magazine. For more information visit
> www.southernstudies.org
> _____
>
> *** A Special Facing South/Southern Exposure Investigation ***
>
> VOTING WHILE BLACK (AND BROWN AND RED)
>
> How the color of your skin still determines whether or not your vote
> counts
>
> By Jordan Green
> Facing South/Southern Exposure
> January 19, 2005
>
> If you are African American, Latino or Native American and voted in the
> 2004 presidential election that allowed George W. Bush to keep the White
> House, you did so with a higher likelihood that your vote wouldn't be
> counted than if you were white.
>
> That analysis comes from a review of residual voting statistics in heavily
> minority counties in Ohio, Florida and New Mexico - that is, the number of
> people who showed up to vote, but didn't have a preference for president
> counted.
>
> But before you assume this means there's a Jim Crow-style system of
> electoral exclusion designed to systematically suppress the minority vote,
> stop. Before you assume this means the election was stolen from John
> Kerry, stop.
>
> Almost any rigorous examination of the methods of counting votes in
> Election 2004 by race, party clout and political subdivision suggests that
> Bush legitimately won reelection. But the absurdity of some of the
> conspiracy theories thriving in the progressive wing of the Democratic
> Party shouldn't distract us from the real flaws in an electoral system
> that tends to dilute the power of the minority vote. We should be clear
> that while we have made progress towards making sure every vote counts,
> the United States still has a long way to go to make sure minority votes
> count as much as white votes.
>

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