From Salon

["Jose G. Perez" <jg_perez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

[I'm not posting the complete article, as it is very long and I know that
Salon keeps material online indefinitely.  The complete article is available
at:

http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html

[Note especially the amazing "coincidence" that the original source of the
list of people falsely accused of being felons was George W's state of
Texas, which he sent over to brother Jeb's hatchet women after laundering
the list through the private outfit. --José]

Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program

Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a firm to vet the rolls for
felons, but that may have wrongly kept thousands, particularly blacks, from
casting ballots.

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By Gregory Palast

Dec. 4, 2000 | If Vice President Al Gore is wondering where his Florida
votes went, rather than sift through a pile of chad, he might want to look
at a "scrub list" of 173,000 names knocked off the Florida voter registry by
a division of the office of Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. A
close examination suggests thousands of voters may have lost their right to
vote based on a flaw-ridden list of purported "felons" provided by a private
firm with tight Republican ties.

Early in the year, the company, ChoicePoint, gave Florida officials a list
with the names of 8,000 ex-felons to "scrub" from their list of voters. But
it turns out none on the list were guilty of felonies, only misdemeanors.
The company acknowledged the error, and blamed it on the original source of
the list -- the state of Texas.

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