Jeb Bush Keeps Felon List

Found on Wired on Sunday, 17 October 2004
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Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ignored advice to throw out a flawed felon voter list before it went out to county election offices despite warnings from state officials, according to a report published Saturday.

A software program matched data on felons with voter registration rolls to create the list of 48,000 names. Secretary of State Glenda Hood junked the database in July after acknowledging that 2,500 ex-felons on the list had had their voting rights restored.

Most were Democrats, and many were black. Hispanics, who often vote Republican in Florida, were almost entirely absent from the list due to a technical error.

U.S. Rep. Kendrick Meek, the Florida chairman of Democratic Sen. John Kerry's presidential campaign, said the report shows the extent Bush will go to ensure his brother's re-election.

The clan is starting to work again. With another 4 years under Dubya, the US will get into real bad trouble. So far, he managed to ruin the country and start a war with a first strike; I don't want to see what else he is up to. Or the people behind him, because he doesn't seem bright enough to tie his own shoe laces.