Saturday, May 10, 2003

Voter Purges

"Jim Crow has moved into cyberspace -- harder to detect, craftier in operation, shifting shape into the electronic guardian of a new electoral segregation," write Greg Palast and Martin Luther King III.

For background, make sure you're familiar with Palast's blockbuster investigative report on the election debacle of 2000, "Florida's flawed 'voter-cleansing' program." For many, it was the election story never told -- or heard.