[ride the whirlwind]

From the article:

"But facts are stubborn things. Whites were actually twice as likely as blacks to be erroneously placed on the list. In fact, an exhaustive study by the Miami Herald concluded that "the biggest problem with the felon list was not that it prevented eligible voters from casting ballots, but that it ended up allowing ineligible voters to cast a ballot."* According to the Palm Beach Post, more than 6,500 ineligible felons voted."

[rocksblues]

If you commit a felony you should be barred from voting for the rest of your life!

[Aetius]

That probably represented an ill-gotten margin of about 6000 for Gore then.