Despite all this, state officials have just sent elections supervisors in Florida's 67 counties another list of 47,000 names of individuals who may have committed felonies in the past, telling the supervisors to purge their rolls again.
http://news.tbo.com/news/MGB7TQUZ5VD.html
Some supervisors say they don't have the staff, expertise or money to do the purge without the same kind of errors as in 2000.
Legally purged voters, meanwhile, won't find out about it until they get a letter from an election supervisor this summer - too late to have their rights restored for this election - or are turned away on Election Day.
The vast majority of them are black and would be likely to vote Democratic.
In Miami-Dade County, for example, blacks are 20 percent of the population but make up 65 percent of those on the 2000 felon purge lists.
Thursday, June 10, 2004
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