1.9 million black votes didn't count in the 2000 presidential election / It's not too hard to get your vote lost -- if some politicians want it to be lost (Greg Palast / San Francisco Gate)
".. half of the rejected ballots were cast by African Americans although black voters make up only 12 percent of the electorate. ... The U.S. Civil Rights Commission looked into the smelly pile of spoiled ballots and concluded that, of the 179,855 ballots invalidated by Florida officials, 53 percent were cast by black voters. In Florida, a black citizen was 10 times as likely to have a vote rejected as a white voter. ... In other words, in the white county, make a mistake and get another ballot; in the black county, make a mistake, your ballot is tossed."