News from the sunshine state

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

Read this carefully. I do not know why this is not being talked about nationally. Mind-boggling!

Florida election officials scrap list of felons

Published Sat, Jul 10, 2004
The Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - 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.
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.

The flaw in a state that President Bush won by a margin of just 537 votes could have been significant - Hispanics in Florida tend to vote Republican.

[Robbien]

1. It has been talked about a couple of days ago when ex-felons

were found to be on the felon list. The ex-felons were mainly Blacks and usually voted Democratic. So now felons who are hispanic get to stay on the voter roles because they usually vote GOP.

Sounds like SOP for Florida.

What worries me is what are they going to come up with next if they scrap this felon list and are we going to be able to find out in time to stop their cheating.

[iwillalwayswonderwhy]

2. The scariest statement of the story

"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.

Kind of like saying, now that we've been busted, we'll have to find another way.

[Robbien]

4. The scariest part I believe is the firm Florida chose to

come up with the felon list. They are one of the shadiest and scariest firms out there.

And yes, Welcome to DU iwillalwayswonderwhy.

[soup]

3. Welcome to DU!

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