Published on Thursday, April 22, 2004 by the lndependent/UK
by Andrew Gumbel in Los Angeles
"The United States may be on the way to another Florida-style presidential election fiasco this year because legislation passed to fix the system has either failed to address the problems or has broken down because of missed deadlines and unmet funding targets.
Such is the conclusion of a damning new report by the US Commission on Civil Rights, a bipartisan government body which previously looked into the Florida mess and found alarming evidence of voter disenfranchisement among poor and minority groups, incorrectly compiled voter rolls and other glaring irregularities. "Many of the problems that the commission previously cautioned should be corrected yet prevail ... Unless the government acts now, many of those previously disenfranchised stand to be excluded again," the report said."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines04/0422-02.htmRead the report here:
http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2004/ready/ready04.htm