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| Floriduh Scraps Felon Voting List; Bush Now Projected To Win Again |
| 2004-07-10 |
| OK, some editorial license there... Florida elections officials said Saturday they would not use a list of people believed to be convicted felons to purge voter rolls, acknowledging a flaw that left off some Hispanics. Convicted felons, half of which are on the FSU football team... The problem in compiling the list was unintentional, said Nicole de Lara, a spokeswoman for Secretary of State Glenda Hood. "Nevertheless, Supervisors of Elections are required to uphold their constitutional obligation" and will find other ways to ensure felons are removed from the rolls, Hood said in a statement. The decision was made after it was reported that the list contained few people identified as Hispanic; of the nearly 48,000 people on the list created by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, only 61 were classified as Hispanics. That was because when voters register in Florida, they can identify themselves as Hispanic. But the potential felons database has no Hispanic category, which excludes many people from the list if they put that as their race. The gang that couldn’t The law enforcement list was compared to the voter rolls to determine who should be barred from voting. You mean like all the absentee ballots from overseas enlisted people whose votes the Gore lawyers tried to disallow because they didn’t have cancelled postmarks on them? The flaw in a state that President Bush (news - web sites) won by a margin of just 537 votes could have been significant — Hispanics in Florida tend to vote Republican. Insert Elections supervisors in Florida’s 67 counties had begun reviewing the list of 47,763 potential felons identified by state law enforcement in May. The purge of felons from voter rolls has been a thorny issue since the 2000 presidential election. A private company hired to identify ineligible voters before the election produced a list with scores of errors, and elections supervisors used it to remove voters without verifying its accuracy. A federal lawsuit led to an agreement to restore rights to thousands of voters. These guys could fuck up a cup of coffee. Florida is one of only a handful of states that does not automatically restore voting rights to convicted felons once they’ve completed their sentence. |
| Posted by:Raj |
| #6 Orange! Blue! |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-10 10:06:16 PM |
| #5 Preach it Dragon Fly,Go Gators:) |
| Posted by: djohn66 2004-07-10 10:03:18 PM |
| #4 Convicted felons, half of which are on the FSU football team... That's cause my Florida Gators are as clean as the driven snow. And we are going to wipe the NCAA's ass with FSU this year. Whooop, Whooop! |
| Posted by: Dragon Fly 2004-07-10 9:53:38 PM |
| #3 Jen - Unfortunately, the Dims have the illegal Mexican alien vote locked up... |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2004-07-10 9:44:48 PM |
| #2 Golly, without the Dim felon vote and Theresa LePore's chad squad and with the military vote not being thrown out this time, Bush will win FloriDUH quite handily! |
| Posted by: Jen 2004-07-10 5:15:57 PM |
#1 These guys could fuck up a cup of coffee.LOL, Raj. Priceless. Florida is one of only a handful of states that does not automatically restore voting rights to convicted felons once they’ve completed their sentence.Virginia is another. Let's keep it that way. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-07-10 5:07:25 PM |