Why did Jeb Bush and Katherine Harris deny over 50000 eligible citizens their right to vote in 2000?
It’s just another part of the 2000 election fiasco. The State of Florida’s statutorily mandated purge list, compiled by a private firm, was provided to county supervisors of elections with names that were inexact matches. The data provided demonstrated that this list had a 14.1 percent error rate. Many Floridians who were registered and voted in past elections were informed for the first time on November 7, 2000, that their names had been removed prior to Election Day. These individuals (all Democrats) were given no opportunity to appeal this determination. An official of the Division of Elections dictated to representatives of the private firm to employ a strategy that resulted in a disproportionate number of eligible African Americans voters being removed from the voter registration rolls in error. In fact, one local supervisor of elections, who had never been convicted of a felony, received a letter stating that she was identified as a convicted felon.
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