At least if you listen to ex-President Carter. The BBC reports that he fears Florida vote trouble during this year's election.
Voting arrangements in Florida do not meet "basic international requirements" and could undermine the US election, former US President Jimmy Carter says.
To me, this smacks of political opportunism of the worst kind, namely playing on the fears of the least well educated that there is a systematic attempt to keep them from voting. A man at Starbucks told me yesterday that Bush stole the election and hated blacks. I started to argue, but then thought it would be better to agree, as an ironic joke. He didn't get it. Maybe we should do that here too -- just agree that the election procedures in Florida do not meet minimum international requirements and let our Mugabe-type instruments of electoral repression out into the open. Surely our ex-POTUS is correct? I have thought that Florida was a masquerading 3rd world abomination within the US for some time now.
Now where did I put those war veterans' phone numbers? They have to get in shape for the, umm,...campaigning down there.
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You might clarify that "War Veterans" is the name of the militant arm of Robert Mugabe's Zanu PF Party in Zimbabwe. Just in case folks missed the reference.
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