Jeb Bush deliberately purged minorities from Fla. voting rolls by wrongly identifying them as felons
Jonathan Chait ?@jonathanchaitJeb Bush, with malice aforethought, purged minorities from the voting rolls by wrongly identifying them as felons http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/25/jeb-bush-florida-voter-purge_n_7656764.html?1435232658 …
____As the 2016 campaign heats up, an episode from his tenure as Florida governor reveals why Bush's image as a “uniter, not a divider,” as his older brother used to put it, may not stand up. The state's deeply flawed purge of felons from its voting rolls in advance of the 2000 presidential election remains a scar that still has not healed for many in the state.
“I’ll never the forget people that came up to me and said, ‘You let them steal our votes,’” Rep. Corrine Brown (D-Fla.), who became state's first African-American elected to Congress since Reconstruction when she won her seat in 1992, told The Huffington Post. “So many people were just wiped off the rolls -- people who’d been voting for years and years. You had the obligation to prove that you weren’t a felon.”
The felon purge wrongfully denied thousands of legitimate voters the ability to participate in a presidential election pitting Republican George W. Bush against Democrat Al Gore. Ultimately, a few hundred Florida ballots would determine the presidency, and with it, the nation’s path for the next eight years and, really, well beyond.
Though it received little notice outside of Florida in the election’s immediate aftermath, as hanging chads and butterfly ballots took center stage during the recount, the purge remains for many the most egregious example of voter disenfranchisement that took place during the 2000 presidential election, which was ultimately decided by a Supreme Court ruling.
“The purge was right out of one of these playbooks in how you diminish minority turnout -- there was absolutely no justification for it,” said Dan Gelber, a former Democratic state legislator and a longtime Bush nemesis...
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you're kidding????? People in this country, outside the few, relatively, that have a social conscience in 2015, just really don't give a damn. And that means here also. It never falls off my radar and yours either...thanks
Just keep posting...people out here are fighting the RW hate machine because of reminders such as this, till the day I drop. Bernie is really the only option that, hopefully, will finally represent all americans fairly and without an eye to the spoils to be gained as given by the corporatist state and bankers to their political stooges.
I have written to my reps asking they do something. No reply from any.
I don't get it.
You keep posting too! We just won't let anyone forget. 
Go Bernie! 
truth is a wonderful thing.....
Goes to show you how news only gets reported if certain people want it to be heard. This is a rather old story, but relatively few people know about it. Republicans don't believe it when you tell them. It's funny to bring up Florida in 2000 or Ohio in 2004 around Republicans. They practically stick their fingers in their ears and say "Lalalalalalala." 
The links I put up are for a fairly new purge. It will keep people from voting in 2016.
I have a signed DVD that says, "to my Mary, Greg Palast"
kind of thing is that to say about a fellow Democrat? and on what freaking evidence?
Give us the evidence, why don't you?
It's been a GOP modus operandi all along, at the governor's level. We can look at state after state after state. It's all there and has been ever since Bush v. Gore -- even before then, just not on that scale. All the evidence is there, and for those of us who care it has never "fallen off the radar." Ever. If you want to know how it's done and how to combat it, read the DU Archives.
Why would you even say such a thing about a Democrat?
And don't forget to let me know when Bernie stops beating children -- or should I slime as you did and say I don't think he would go that far?
Love love love
But it was Palast that broke it. (Sorry, he's my guy and I have to up talk him whenever possible)
After they successfully (were enabled, really) got rid of ACORN, they turned all of their attention to voting machines and software, making it physically more difficult to vote, mailing out mail-in ballots with bad return addresses, disseminating incorrect information about election dates, scrubbing voter rolls, stocking polling sites in places likely to vote Democrat with people who challenge everything and anything, and, here in Florida, just throwing out boxes of ballots.
I am beginning to think that the only way to ensure a fair vote in Amerika is paper ballots collected on site by Pinkertons (and I don't know if I trust them, either ) or just asking each voter, on TV, how they are voting and having those results written down by two or three people.
he and katherine harris and, and, and karl 'the evil genius a**hole' rove were just trying to prevent voter fraud....right?
The only thing they prevented was our democratic voting system from working and not ever again being trusted. "Hanging chads" my ass.....I'm still pissed about those two 'elections'. A RW coup d'etat in 2000 and affirmed in 2004 just prevented our democracy from working for the 99% ever again. Not that it's ever really worked for many in this society anyway. American 'democracy' has never recovered from that banker, PNAC, corporate inspired skullduggery. Neither have many of the 32,000 seriously wounded vets from their one war, the other one is continuing. I won't talk about the abominable, horrific toll of Iraqi dead and wounded. I've never seen this as a democracy since then, by any stretch of the imagination.
...she might consider emulating GOP tactics. Wonder if he'll reconsider based on your information? 
we continue getting reminders of exactly what happened in Florida in 2000. Imagine what the country would look like if Al Gore had been in the White House, instead of GWB.
Will anything be done about it?
