Florida Scraps Controversial Voting List. Admits Flawed Racial Count

Florida elections officials said Saturday they would not use a disputed list of people believed to be convicted felons to purge voter rolls, acknowledging a flaw that kept some Hispanic felons off the list and could have allowed them to vote. The glitch in a state that President Bush won by just 537 votes could have been significant - because of the state's sizable Cuban population, Hispanics in Florida have tended to vote Republican more than Hispanics nationally.  Out of 48,000, the list had about 28,000 Democrats and around 9,500 Republicans, with most of the rest unaffiliated. "Not including Hispanic felons that may be voters on the list ... was an oversight and a mistake," Gov. Jeb Bush said. [more] and [more]

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