State kills flawed felon purge list (Florida)

Miami Herald ^ | July 10, 2004 | MARY ELLEN KLAS

[HiJinx]

So, Flor-i-Duh polling booth workers won't know whether or not a voter is legal?

What happened...did the state run afoul of no-help-to-ICE policies?

[sgtbono2002]

It sure is nice to know all these felons will be able to vote Democrat.

Democrats the party of criminals.

[muawiyah]

Although a tad expensive, possibly the best way to handle it is to wait until AFTER the election, then trackdown and prosecute (and jail) any felons who voted.

You do that to a couple of dozen people and it won't happen again.

I recall that Florida had already identified several thousand felons who voted in the 2000 election. Most likely they've not done anything about those guys as of yet. This summer would be a good time for some "show trials".

[bayourod]

"The method uses race as one of several factors to determine whether a felon has registered to vote. The others are first name, last name and date of birth ..."We will be reviewing the issue to determine how it could have occurred and why it was not recognized until now.'' ""

Maybe it's because you can't crosscheck last names with Hispanic ethnicity because Hispanic ethnicity is based on last names.

For example there may be three people with the name John Lee on the list. One may be white, one black, and one oriental. But by definition, everyone named Joe Hernandez is Hispanic, regardless of their color.

[JohnnyZ]

Sounds like Jeb needs a few good men and women in state government to help him out. What moron was in charge of putting this list together? They sure did a great job lousing it up!!!!!!

[thoughtomator]

The Dems just don't understand that their campaign to get felons the vote loses them more votes than if every single one of these felons actually showed up to vote, and voted straight-line Democrat.

Never interfere with your enemy while he is wounding himself!

[monkeywrench]

I know a former felon (here in Fl.)who was sent a letter for jury duty a few months back. No, he'd never registered to vote down here. Didn't even care about politics til clinton, whom he hated. Sounds like the dems making a fraud list to me.

[steplock]

RINO's give up without a fight and allow the left-wing lies prevaol.

this country is almost DEAD!

[weegee]

So because "hispanic" felons were not being screened, black, white, and asian felons WILL be permitted to vote?

Purge those you know are felons and revise efforts to locate hispanic felons who are registered.

[weegee]

Aren't hispanic people also permitted to identify themselves additionally as white or black?

I seem to recall something in this issue with regards to how people were booked for crimes here in Houston.

[Lancey Howard]

So convicted felons are free to vote?
This is a great victory for the Democrat Party.

[Kuksool]

nice to know that so-called non-partisan civil rights (ACLU) groups are doing their best to steal the election for the John-Johns.

[Kuksool]

Voting in FL is going to get even uglier.

[samantha]

All I see is that it will be left to The county Supv. of Elections to purge the felons,which can be accomplished by running criminal histories and cross checking local records. I am sure that each county has already been given a heads up for the potential felons in their County. They can check the newspapers for arrests just like they check obits to purge the deceased from the files. That is what they get paid to do.

[Lancey Howard]

All I see is that it will be left to The county Supv. of Elections to purge the felons,which can be accomplished by running criminal histories and cross checking local records

LOFL!!!
You do realize that Democrat counties will purge nobody, right?

[Kuksool]

I doubt Miami-Dade, Palm Beach, and Broward (Gore's favorite counties) will purge the felons from the voter lists. In fact, they may actively seek out criminals to register them to vote. With this development, the liberals can now focus on suing the election board on the issue of recount procedures.

[Hank Rearden]

What moron was in charge of putting this list together?

Somebody who could only get a government job, apparently.

See my tagline.

[M Kehoe]

Shiiite, the ACLU is already down here, and managed to get felons to vote. The democRATs got the felons to vote in 2000, and now the ACLU (legal wing of the DNC) has made it legal. Sheesh! I'll bet the DNC has lawyers down here right now preparing to eliminate the military votes again.

Why can't Republicans rig elections like the democRATs? Why don't we have the caliber of frauds like the Daleys, or Kennedys, or Longs, or...never mind.

W. is going to win this election anyway, just like the last time (Did you hear that Roberts? Oliphant, Bois, Daley, and the rest of you criminals?).

5.56mm

[Morgan's Raider]

All I see is that it will be left to The county Supv. of Elections to purge the felons,which can be accomplished by running criminal histories and cross checking local records.

This is what they were SUPPOSED to do with the list they got in 2000. The Secretary of State's (Katherine Harris) office comissioned the list, sent it to county election supervisors, and the rest was up to them.