FDLE Commissioner Guy Tunnell is now investigating alleged registration fraud by ACORN, an organization that mobilizes poor voters. Of course, he is not the least bit specific as to who or where these violations occured. This is a pure intimidation tactic.
http://www.fdle.state.fl.us/press_releases/20041021_Voter_Fraud.html
In some cases, persons who believed they were signing petitions later found out that their signatures or possible forged signatures were used to complete a fraudulent voter registration. In other instances, it appears that workers hired to obtain legitimate voter registrations filled in the information on the registration forms that should have been completed by the registrants. On several occasions, workers appear to have signed multiple voter registrations themselves using information obtained during the registration drive. In many of the situations complained about, the workers were being paid on the basis of each registration form submitted.
And he is now sugggesting voters bring an OLD REGISTRATION CARD and VALID PICTURE ID to the polling place! How many poor people actually could produce both documents? How many with outstanding warrants would stay away from the poll in fear of being arrested?
This guy is KNOWN for his intimidation of African-Americans when he was a sheriff: http://www.flanews.com/archives2003/0826Fdle.htm
Among other "hidden" failures of judgment: http://www.flanews.com/april/0419Fdle.htm
And is involved with this Orwellian organization: http://www.matrix-at.org/
This is the outcome of our failed attempt to get justice for the same tactics in the 2000 election in Florida. We never got enough of the public at large to care.
If we don't fight this now, we will lose again.
And, again, no one will care.