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By Chris Floyd
Published: September 3, 2004

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The brothers Urosevich were originally staked in the vote-count business by Howard Ahmanson, a member of the Council for National Policy, a right-wing "steering group" stacked with Bushist faithful. Ahmanson was also a major funder of the "Christian Reconstruction" movement, which openly advocates a theocratic takeover of American democracy, placing "the state, the school, the arts and sciences, law, economics, and every other sphere under Christ the King." This "dominion" includes the death penalty for homosexuals, stoning of sinners, and slavery for debtors. As the movement's leader, the late R.J. Rushdoony -- Ahmanson's mentor and former fellow CNP member -- put it: "The Christian should therefore not fear laws in support of Christian social goals just because they interfere with personal freedom."

Indeed. Why, the "most destructive" words in American public life today are "separation of church and state." So says Mary Kiffmeyer, the ardent Bushist who just happens to be the state official in charge of elections in Minnesota, as In These Times reports. Kiffmeyer represents another sharp prong in the Regime's attempt to fork the vote: partisan supervision of the electoral process. Faithful Republicans -- sometimes doubling as Bush campaign officials, in the great tradition of Florida's Katherine Harris, who oversaw, nay, engineered the debacle there in 2000 -- are now in charge of certifying elections in such key swing states as Michigan, Ohio, Colorado and, yes, Jeb Bush's gubernatorial satrapy in Florida.

Although Harris' lacquered visage now adorns the halls of Congress, Governor Jeb has installed an equally ruthless operator, Glenda Hood, in her place. Hood and Jeb were recently caught trying to kick 47,000 voters, mostly African-American and Democratic, off the rolls: an attempted repeat of the Jeb-Kath "felon purge" scam that blocked thousands of legitimately registered voters -- again, largely African-American -- from casting ballots in 2000. Jeb is also stalling on a further 43,000 people -- again, mostly black and/or poor -- waiting to have their voting rights restored under Florida's uniquely draconian eligibility strictures, The Tampa Tribune reports.

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Jeb's urge to purge may have been thwarted this time around, but the dynasts are now calling on yet another effective vote-suppressing weapon: weapons. Last month, Jeb sent heat-packing state troopers into the homes of elderly black voters in Orlando (whose former mayor was a certain Glenda Hood), The New York Times reports. The armed troopers were ostensibly carrying out an investigation into alleged Democratic voter fraud, even though Jeb's own top cops had already determined -- last May -- that the charges were baseless. Curiously enough, the main target of these brazen intimidations were members of an African-American voter mobilization group.
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