This time, Florida has real voter intimidation

There are extensive reports of Kerry supporters engaging in intimidation and bullying at voting places in Florida. And here’s another such report. Undoubtedly, Democrats will excuse their thuggish behavior by means of the Big Lie—they’ll say that the Republicans deserve such treatment for what they supposedly did in 2000, you know, using police dogs to scare blacks away from polling places, “disenfranchising” blacks (meaning, in the real world, that a disproportionate number of blacks had cast unusable ballots), and using those complicated butterfly ballots (which, in reality, were designed by Democratic county officials) to fool helpless Jewish retirees in Palm Beach County into voting for Patrick Buchanan.

Posted by Lawrence Auster at October 23, 2004 02:49 PM | Send