Reply #5: NY TIMES link [View All]

[Eric J in MN]

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/opinion/15SUN1.html?pagewanted=all&position=

"The voters wrongly removed by Ms. Harris's purge were disproportionately black ? African-Americans make up one of the strongest Democratic voting groups in the state ? as were the voters on the St. Louis inactive voters list. For years, partisan "ballot security" programs in the South singled out tens of thousands of black voters for removal from the voting rolls. Just this month, civil rights groups sued a Texas district attorney who threatened, in violation of the law, to prosecute students at Prairie View A&M University, a predominantly black school, if they register using their school addresses."