Friday, November 01, 2002

Getting out the vote, Florida-style(Salon premium). So just when will Florida end the disenfranchisement of maybe 91,000 mostly black voters? Not until bubba Jeb gets reelected I suspect. I really love the integrity this demonstrates.

And even though the list has been widely condemned -- the company that created it admits probable errors -- the same voter scrub list, with more than 94,000 names on it, is still in operation in Florida. Moreover, DBT Online, which generated the disastrously flawed list, reports that if it followed strict criteria to eliminate those errors, roughly 3,000 names would remain -- and a whopping 91,000 people would have their voting rights restored.

Eventually the list will be fixed, state officials have promised, in accordance with a settlement with the NAACP in its civil rights suit against Florida following the 2000 election. But not until the beginning of next year -- and after Jeb Bush's reelection bid is long over.

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