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Why don't you take a little time and get educated Goatman. A texas firm was hired to purge felons from voting. They just happened to also purge thousands of non felons with the same names. That is just ONE of the many tactics repugs have used to defile our election process.
Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program
Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a firm to vet the rolls for felons, but that may have wrongly kept thousands, particularly blacks, from casting ballots.
BY GREGORY PALAST
If Vice President Al Gore is wondering where his Florida votes went, rather than sift through a pile of chad, he might want to look at a "scrub list" of 173,000 names targeted to be knocked off the Florida voter registry by a division of the office of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. A close examination suggests thousands of voters may have lost their right to vote based on a flaw-ridden list that included purported "felons" provided by a private firm with tight Republican ties.
Early in the year, the company, ChoicePoint, gave Florida officials a list with the names of 8,000 ex-felons to "scrub" from their list of voters. But it turns out none on the list were guilty of felonies, only misdemeanors. The company acknowledged the error, and blamed it on the original source of the list -- the state of Texas.
Florida officials moved to put those falsely accused by Texas back on voter rolls before the election. Nevertheless, the large number of errors uncovered in individual counties suggests that thousands of eligible voters may have been turned away at the polls.
Florida is the only state that pays a private company that promises to "cleanse" voter rolls.
archive.salon.com
Botched Name Purge Denied Some the Right to Vote
By Robert E. Pierre
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, May 31, 2001; Page A01
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
ac2/wp-dyn/A99749-2001May30
Why so many non-felons were "scrubbed" from the voting rolls
Under orders from Harris's office, DBT provided matches of anyone with a close name. Thus, for example, John Jackson is a black man who had served time in Texas, so Johnny Jackson Jr., a black man in Florida with the same birth date, was purged from the registration rolls. [6] DBT used lists of former felons that included names and birth dates and race, but counted as a "match" names that were only approximate. DBT specifically wrote Harris's office to say that their name-match criteria would include a large number of nonfelons, and Harris's office advised them in writing to lower the name-match criterion further to 85%. All told, DBT generated a list of 82,389 voters to purge from registries. [7]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/
index.php?
title=Voter_roll_purge_in_the_
2000_Florida_election
Oh, you rw dupes are all so outraged by the allegations that ACORN may have somehow commited some registering fraud, based on what a soon to be felon taped and edited.
But when actual documented criminal activity occurs, you tap dance around like the partisans you are......
Party over country, as usual for repugs.
You boys got anything at all to say about the soon to be felon whose "edited" video of entraping Acorn employees has been the seed of so much BS from the right disparaging a basically good organization that helps poor Americans?
