Carter: Electoral Process Better in Venezuela than USA
Update: Instapundit didn’t link to this post, but he did link to this one that expresses the same thing. Money quote:
Jimmy Carter–who couldn’t find voter fraud in Venezuela if he had a 36% exit poll discrepancy….and he did–has found “voter fraud” in Florida in the form of a felon list that was rejected two months ago. And, in response to Florida’s rejection of that list, he claims “no steps” have been taken “to correct these departures"???
Former President Jimmy Carter states in a Washington Post opinion piece that a free election isn’t possible in Florida:
Carter, citing the experience of his Carter Center in monitoring international elections, said “some basic international requirements for a fair election are missing in Florida.”
This is the same former president who, in response to opposition claims that President Hugo Chavez rigged the balloting in the Aug 15, 2004 referendum, stated:
“We have no reason to doubt the integrity of the electoral process nor the accuracy of the referendum results,” Carter asserted at a news conference .
Nice to see that Christopher Hitchen’s adage that “Jimmy Carter never met a dictator he didn’t like” still holds.
More on Carter here.
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So you don’t like the messenger, but what about the message:
1. The changes recommended by Carter and Ford after 2000 have not been put in place
2. Attempts to remove voters erroneously identified as felons disproprtionately (by orders of magnitude) single out blacks, who tend to vote Democrat.
What’s Jeb doing to make the Florida vote credible?
Comment by rl — 9/28/2004 @ 11:38 am
RL
The point is that Chavez jailed and beat the opposition into submission with his thugs - and Carter certifies the election.
Last I checked there weren’t roving gangs of Republicans beating up Dems in Florida.
Comment by Scott Kirwin — 9/28/2004 @ 2:05 pm