Kendrick Meek: “The election in Florida was a quagmire of confusion and delusion, in that the election in Florida cannot even be…”

“The election in Florida was a quagmire of confusion and delusion, in that the election in Florida cannot even be compared to Haiti's elections. Haiti elections were much better run than the election in Florida. There were so many circumstances that happened in Florida, in this Nation. In this Nation, where we have all the technology in the world, in this Nation where we have all of the leadership in the world, to have an election that some people were denied the right to vote is a travesty of democracy. The Haitian election was much better run. But did we censor this country because of it? Were we able to get any redress of our grievances? No. Were we able to come before this very Congress to show the situation in the election and show them what a bad situation it was, how it defied democracy? No, we could not get any redress. And it was a well-kept secret, the many, many problems in Florida. So it is so difficult to even compare it with Haiti. It does not even come up to the standards of the election in Haiti and some of the other underdeveloped countries as well. So, no, I do not see why we would use that. We are making it a political football because we do not want to help Haiti, and it is strictly political.”