Florida 94000 voting list error to get 12000 person correction-media says?

[papau]

Greg Palast reported that 94,000 people on a voter "purge" list -- half of them African-American -- continue to be banned from voting in Florida, even though the state knows the list is wildly inaccurate and, per DBT Online which generated the disastrously flawed list, if strict criteria to eliminate those errors were followed, roughly 3,000 names would remain.

The list has been widely condemned -- the company that created it admits probable errors -- the same voter scrub list, with more than 94,000 names on it, is still in operation in Florida, and DBT Online, which generated the disastrously flawed list, reports that if it followed strict criteria to eliminate those errors, roughly 3,000 names would remain -- and a whopping 91,000 people would have their voting rights restored.

From Palast:(snip)Since that experience, ChoicePoint has gone out of the business of scrubbing lists. Lee said that "although we had been approached by other states to perform similar work, ChoicePoint has declined to perform voter registration for other states" because "when comes to performing work which may impact a person's right to vote, we are not confident that any of the methods that are used today will guarantee that the legal voters will not be wrongfully denied the right to vote."

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And the question of why this Jeb Bush/GOP FRAUD is not blasted in the US print or radio or TV or Cable news media is answered by the now standard answer – “we do not have a news media controlled by the right wing boards of directors they work for, they just act that way.”

So last weeks story that Jeb would allow a 12000 person removal from the list for 04 - despite his feeling that not all of the 12000 had really shown they deserved to be removed from the removal list - got zero national media attention.

:-(

[ima_sinnic]

1. but the article is more than a year old

Is the situation still the same? I have to confess I have not kept up with this issue at all.

[papau]

2. The new is last weeks 12000 cleanup - which is to the unchanged old

list.

The Tampa papers last week were noting Jeb's concern that restoring 12000 registered voters out of the 91000 illegally removed (94000 on list with list making company saying only 3000 names followed rules for removal leaves 91000 that per NAACP court suit settlement "should" be restored).

Nothing in the media noted that the Jeb concerned about black illegal votes in 04 (of course Jeb did not say black - but we know the race of those on the list because the list making company retained that data - I wonder why) was silly given the 91000 illegally off to 12000 restored ratio.

[fearnobush]

3. I saw a Diebold Van on my way to work today.

The white Ford van said: Diebold, We Won't Rest. Then I thougt of this quote I found on the Cleveland Plain Dealer: The Aug. 14 letter from Walden O'Dell, chief executive of Diebold Inc. - who has become active in the re-election effort of President Bush to sell voting machines in Ohio told Republicans in a recent fund-raising letter that he is: "committed to helping Ohio deliver its electoral votes to the president next year." Needless to say, my first impulse was to... we'll I'll just leave it at that. Anyway, This voter roll scrubbing, hacking is a deep rabbit hole, that the RNC and blind media refuses to address. I have sent countless letters to those of the Wash Post, NY Times, CNN etc, etc. and nothing. But for some weird thing called hope, I keep sending them and keep telling the greatest story never told. The Truth is Out There, Let It Be Known. Be Not Afraid, Bust Diebold!!!!!!!!