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The Power of Two: A noble minority on the Civil Rights Commission.(commission report, with two dissenting votes, concluded that African Americans were more likely to be disenfranchised in Florida, than whites)
In August, when Al Sharpton talked about why he wants to embark on a fantasy campaign for president, he made sure to mention "voter disenfranchisement" in Florida in last year's election. Just about every other Democrat can be expected to do the same between now and 2004. Reverend Al repeated the term like a mantra in a round of interviews, and nodding scribes on the Sharpton beat have buttressed his point with dutiful assertions that blacks were nine times as likely as whites to have their ballots invalidated.
That startling figure promises to become a piece of conventional wisdom, a permanent part of the Florida story that forever questions the legitimacy of ...
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