- Jeb Crow?
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- There they go again. Today's Salon.com exclusive by investigative
reporter Greg Palast:
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- Florida moves to bar 91,000 legal voters - mostly Democrats
- from Tuesday poll
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- From the Salon.com article:
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- In December 2000, we reported that Florida's use of a
faulty and politically questionable list of felons and dead people "scrubbed"
from voter rolls -- half of them African-Americans -- may have cost Al
Gore the 537-vote margin of victory claimed by George W. Bush in Florida.
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- Fast-forward two years. There's another close race in
Florida. This time, younger brother Jeb is fighting to fend off a challenge
from Bill McBride for the governor's race. The Nov. 5 face-off could again
come down to thousands, if not hundreds, of votes.
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- And even though the list has been widely condemned --
the company that created it admits probable errors -- the same voter scrub
list, with more than 94,000 names on it, is still in operation in Florida.
Moreover, DBT Online, which generated the disastrously flawed list, reports
that if it followed strict criteria to eliminate those errors, roughly
3,000 names would remain -- and a whopping 91,000 people would have their
voting rights restored.
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- Eventually the list will be fixed, state officials have
promised, in accordance with a settlement with the NAACP in its civil rights
suit against Florida following the 2000 election. But not until the beginning
of next year -- and after Jeb Bush's reelection bid is long over. >
> > Read the rest of the story on http://www.Salon.com. >
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