Famous blacks get out the vote in Florida

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Famous blacks get out the vote in Florida



Date: Friday, October 15, 2004
By: Associated Press

WASHINGTON  - Black actors including LeVar Burton and Alfre Woodard will join members of Congress crisscrossing Florida by bus this weekend to try to get out the vote for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry.

 Our Future" tour begins Thursday in Tallahassee and concludes Monday in Miami. Democrats say they will focus on voter education and empowerment in a state where Kerry hopes a large black turnout will help him beat President Bush and win Florida's crucial 27 electoral votes.

Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe, in a conference call with reporters Wednesday to announce the tour, encouraged Floridians to take advantage of the state's early-voting laws. He said he hoped the tour counters what he called "a deliberate attempt to disenfranchise communities of color" in Florida and other states.

Bush in 2000 won Florida by 537 votes over Democrat Al Gore after the recount in which federal civil-rights monitors said ballots of black voters were disproportionately tossed out.

McAuliffe said he sent a letter Wednesday to Republican National Committee chief Ed Gillespie addressing recent incidents in two other tightly contested states, Oregon and Nevada.

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[Was_Immer]

1. Geordi LaForge is getting out the Trekkie vote

WooHoo LeVar Burton is getting out the vote!

Trekers of the world UNITE.

[tsuki]

2. Please...

can you tell them to get over to Orlando and visit with Orlando League of Voters Ezzie Thomas, who is 73 years old. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is visiting elderly voters (investigating voter fraud, yeah, right) and the elderly have the opinion that they will go to jail if they vote. Wonder where they got that idea?