Reply #11: Did it talk about HAVA being planned BEFORE 2000 election? [View All]

[cascadiance]

I heard that revelation when Bev Harris, Paul Lehto, Jim Lampley, Ed Asner, etc. were talking to us at a town hall meeting last week here in San Diego.

Everyone thinking the conventional wisdom was that HAVA was a response to the problems of "hanging chads", etc. that was in the 2000 election might want to rethink things.

I think it was Mr. Lehto, but it could have been another panel member, that said that there are congressional records of HAVA being discussed before the 2000 election. Now what form it was in, and if it was in the blatant "sell out to the voting machines" mode that it is now is probably another question to get an answer to as well.

But hearing that, I almost wondered if perhaps the whole thing in Florida was "planned" and even more "theater" to help them justify what they wanted to do with HAVA, much like some "conspiracy theorists" feel that 9/11 was all about setting us up to embark on the other neocon dreams of invading Iraq and invoking the Patriot Act.

Since Bev Harris was there and might have mentioned this, I was wondering if this was covered in the movie. Still looking forward to getting my hands on a copy soon.