After Florida wrongly purged eligible
voters from its rolls in 2000, several media organizations decided to
follow up on how the state had fixed the problem this time around. But
as they learned Thursday, little has changed. In response to a
media-led lawsuit filed in June, Circuit Judge Nikki Ann Clark overuled
a state law that prevented the release of the state's controversial
list of 47,763 suspected felons. After thus inspecting the names on the
list, newspapers found what many have long suspected - thousands of
voters who shouldn't be listed, with about three times as many
Democrats as Republicans cited. [more]
Florida list of eligible voters includes thousands of felons [more]
