The 2000 Florida Felon Voter Purge List was Only 4% Hispanic

The 2004 Felon Voter List has come under attack recently because Hispanics disproportionately made up 0% of the list. Latinos in Florida tend to vote republican. While African Americans in Florida, who tend to vote Democrat, proportionately made up nearly 50% of the felon list. Now  Contrapositive.blogspot.com reports that according to Guy Stuart, a professor of public policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, Hispanics were also substantially under-represented in 2000 Florida Felon Purge List: only 4% of the names on the list were Hispanic in a state where Hispanics make up 11% of registered voters. . So what's going on? Were large numbers of Hispanics omitted from the 2000 list? Or, to put it more sharply: Is it possible that it took the illegal votes of Hispanic felons to put Bush over the top in 2000 in Florida?  [more]