Florida's Voter Purge List Flawed
by kevincovey
Sat Jul 10, 2004 at 09:26:50 AM PDT
Thank goodness that the courts have ruled that Florida has to release their voter purge list. Otherwise we wouldn't have caught this:
"Florida election officials used a flawed method to come up with a listing of people believed to be convicted felons, a list that they are recommending be used to purge voter registration rolls, state officials acknowledged yesterday. As a result, voters identifying themselves as Hispanic are almost completely absent from that list.
Of nearly 48,000 Florida residents on the felon list, only 61 are Hispanic. By contrast, more than 22,000 are African-American.
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In a presidential-election battleground state that decided the 2000 race by giving George W. Bush a margin of only 537 votes, the effect could be significant: black voters are overwhelmingly Democratic, while Hispanics in Florida tend to vote Republican."
See the full story at http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/national/10florida.html?hp
Other states purge voters as well, right? Should we be focusing attention on this process in all 20 battleground states to ensure that the results in November aren't affected by illegal disenfranchisement?
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