Purging of rolls to go slowly (Miami Herald)

[Bushfire]

Posted on Thu, Jun. 10, 2004

ELECTION 2004


Purging of rolls to go slowly

Election supervisors from throughout Florida said they would move slowly before removing from the rolls people who the state says may be felons ineligible to vote.

BY GARY FINEOUT

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KEY WEST - Election supervisors from across the state said Wednesday that they plan to independently verify whether someone is ineligible to vote because of a felony conviction.

Supervisors, meeting at their summer conference in Key West, did not recommend a uniform way for counties to investigate criminal histories of voters. But most of them said they would not purge any voters from a state list of possible felons without doing their own checking of criminal records.

''I believe that every supervisor is going to do their due diligence,'' said Kathy Dent, Sarasota County supervisor of elections. ``It's going to be a slow process. Unless we're 100 percent sure, no one is going to be taken off the rolls.''

MAY 5 MEMO

The controversy over felons was triggered by a May 5 memo from (recently resigned) state Division of Elections Director Ed Kast. The memo said the state had identified nearly 48,000 registered voters who also had felony convictions and asked supervisors to begin the process of removing them from the rolls. Florida bans convicted felons from voting unless their rights are restored by the state.

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But some supervisors, such as Leon County elections chief Ion Sancho, and outside groups say they have found errors on the new list. Civil rights groups have been urging that supervisors independently evaluate each case before starting the purge process -- which starts when the supervisors send a notice by certified mail to the voter who is going to be taken off the rolls. A voter who fails to respond to the letter -- or to a subsequent public notice in a newspaper -- will be removed.

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good news if county supervisors do their job

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[Bushfire]

2. Kicking back to page 1 n/t

:kick: didn't think this would drop so quick, but Reagan trumps everything I guess this week.

[cybildisobedience]

3. a public notice in the newspaper?

I thought we were "protecting their privacy?"

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

8. That's a right solid pernt ya got thar.

My guess: Everyone knows that the vast majority of Americans don't read newspapers, let alone a notice section, but they watch the tellervizhen!

[Bushfire]

4. bump

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[David Zephyr]

5. Here the Racist GOP Goes Again.

If any state in America should have learned its lesson, one would think it would be Florida!

This shit is being directed right out of the White House through Jeb Bush.

[newyawker99]

6. kick

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[banana republican]

7. Public Notice in a Newspaper What about CNN??

[JohnLocke]

9. Kick

[struggle4progress]

10. kick

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[stickdog]

11. Jeb Crow laws really piss me off . (nt)