Florida List for Purge of Voters Proves Flawed

Florida List for Purge of Voters Proves Flawed
By FORD FESSENDEN

Published: July 10, 2004

Florida election officials used a flawed method to come up with a listing of
people believed to be convicted felons, a list that they are recommending be
used to purge voter registration rolls, state officials acknowledged yesterday.
As a result, voters identifying themselves as Hispanic are almost completely
absent from that list.

Of nearly 48,000 Florida residents on the felon list, only 61 are Hispanic. By
contrast, more than 22,000 are African-American.

About 8 percent of Florida voters describe themselves as Hispanic, and about 11
percent as black.

In a presidential-election battleground state that decided the 2000 race by
giving George W. Bush a margin of only 537 votes, the effect could be
significant: black voters are overwhelmingly Democratic, while Hispanics in
Florida tend to vote Republican.

Elections officials of Florida's Republican administration denied any partisan
motive in use of the method they adopted, and noted that it had been approved
as part of a settlement of a civil rights lawsuit.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/10/na...lorida.html?th

The Bushies are definitely gearing up to steal the election.

Walt

What has this to do with military aviation?

Dan, U.S. Air Force, retired

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Why put this on this board? Should we fly them somewhere?