martes, julio 03, 2007

FRAUDE ELECTORAL y racismo en EEUU:
Last week a federal district judge found direct evidence that the political machine in Noxubee County, Miss., had discriminated against voters with the intent to infringe their rights and that "these abuses have been racially motivated."

Among the abuses catalogued by Judge Tom Lee were the paying of notaries public to visit voters and illegally mark their absentee ballots, manipulation of the registration rolls, importation of illegal candidates to run for county office, and publication of a list of voters, classified by race, who might have their ballots challenged. The judge criticized state political officials for being "remiss" in addressing the abuses. The U.S. Justice Department, which sued Noxubee officials under the Voting Rights Act, has called conditions there "the most extreme case of racial exclusion seen by the [department's] Voting Section in decades."
Qué fuerte, ¿no? Y qué raro que tevetreses, cuatros y telecincos, sextas, países y seres no hayan dicho nada nunca, con lo que les gusta meter el dedo en el ojo al tío Sam, ¿verdad?

Habrá que seguir leyendo para ver si encontramos la razón:
[T]he Noxubee case doesn't fit the media stereotype for voting rights abuses. The local political machine is run by Ike Brown, a twice-convicted felon. Mr. Brown is black, and the voters who were discriminated against were white.
Ah.