Florida's Crime: The Felon List

It was so much easier for Tallahassee officials to defend a list of 48,000 "potential felons" who should be purged from the voter rolls when that list was a secret one.    Now that it's out, it's apparent that the state was engaged in flawed record keeping and wanted county election officials -- already pressed with election deadlines and with no additional staff to make added checks -- to blindly agree to pull voters whose names appeared on it. [more]

• Felon Disenfranchisement: Purging the Minority Vote [more]
  

• 'Mess In Florida' [more]

• People For the American Way Foundation is sponsoring a fast-paced interactive four-week summer program for college students and community activists in rural North Florida [more]
• Miami will sue county over early voting sites [more]