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Originally posted by ZTAngel
My favorite part is when the article says that Republican voters were almost completely absent from this list due to a technical error. Sigh....Florida still can't seem to correct their voting problem! Although this new list has been trashed, I'm still surprised that the State hadn't learned its lesson and still had problems where voters who shouldn't have been on the list ended up on it. This is after the disaster of 2000 with the felon list where Katherine Harris (evil, vile woman) had people on the list who weren't even felons; the people's only mistake is that they shared a name with a convicted felon so many people were turned away at the polls.
Most were Democrats, and many were black. Hispanics, who often vote Republican in Florida, were almost entirely absent from the list due to a technical error.
Bush's spokeswoman, Jill Bratina, denied allegations that the governor ignored warnings about the list.
"It's also irrelevant because the list isn't being used," Bratina said Saturday.
U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek (news, bio, voting record), the Florida chairman of Democratic Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites)'s presidential campaign, said the report shows the extent Bush will go to ensure his brother's re-election.
"Jeb Bush and the Bush campaign need to come clean about their involvement in this sad spectacle," Meek said.
Florida is one of few states that does not automatically restore voting rights to convicted felons when they complete their sentences. Purging felons from voter rolls has been a hot-button issue since the 2000 presidential election, when many citizens discovered at the polls they weren't allowed to vote.
Election officials have said that anyone who feels they have been inadvertently removed from the voter rolls on Nov. 2 will be allowed to use a provisional ballot that will be examined later to determine eligibility.
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Why is Katherine Harris a vile, evil woman? Did she break a law?
And to quote an article mentioning Kendrick Meek, who was THOROUGHLY embarassed on national TV when interviewed in 2000 immediately discredits the article.
The truth of the matter is that Florida has long had this list, just like Colorado and other states. And that disqualification was just fine in '92 and '96. Why it was actually peachy keen in '76 when Jimmy Carter carried Florida, but now that he has made ridiculous accusations and said the UN needs to observe voting in Florida, it's horrid.
Why, it's just awful, isn't it?