"In the days following the presidential election (of 2000), there were so many stories of African Americans erased from voter rolls you might think they were targeted by some kind of racial computer program. They were. I have a copy of it: two silvery CD-ROM disks right out of the office computers of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. Once decoded and flowed into a database, they make for interesting, if chilling, reading. They tell us how our president (George W. Bush) was elected – and it wasn’t by the voters."
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Greg Palast, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, Chapter 1, Jim Crow in Cyberspace: The Unreported Story of How They Fixed the Vote in Florida, (2002)
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