Hood wants investigation of felon database

[DoYouEverWonder]

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/07/16/State/Hood_wants_investigat.shtml

July 16, 2004

TALLAHASSEE - Secretary of State Glenda Hood has ordered an audit of a controversial database that was supposed to remove felons from voting lists.

A spokeswoman for Hood said she has no reason to think there are additional problems with the list, which has been scrapped because it was filled with errors.

"She just wants to find out why it happened and why it wasn't caught until now," said director of communications Nicole de Lara.

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This year the state spent $1.8-million developing a central data base required by law. The work was done by Accenture, a company with close ties to Republican officials. De Lara said the expenditure was made for the entire database, which includes the names of all Florida voters.

"We can't single out the amount spent for the felon component," she said.



Hood is the same lady who decided that you don't have to recount electronic votes because it is impossible for the computers to make a mistake. She is a totally incompetent Bu$hbot, that's why Jeb picked her.

[rooboy]

1. Oh, that's right. It's 'Accenture' now, not 'ARTHUR ANDERSEN' n/t

[Bozita]

2. the firm that gave Enron everything it ever wanted in creative bookkeeping

and don't forget "Aunt Millie."

[lanparty]

3. Why did Bush know Saddam had (past tense) WMD???

Because he has the receipt. And hood has the receipt on Accenture. They have the receipt on Choicepoint. The services that were requested are the one's being provided "at premium prices".

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Taxpayers' Money

$1,800,000 for 30,000 names. Hmm, that looks like $60 per name, unless it is more for fewer names. Since the list has been scrapped, it seems that the money might have been better spent registering voters. Probably cost less than $60 per voter registered.

[VolcanoJen]

6. Welcome to DU, Bernardo de La Paz!

:toast: :bounce: :bounce: :hi: :bounce: :bounce: :hi: :toast:

[Hailtothechimp]

5. Here's what gets me about the list....

It was listed by name (first, last, and sometimes middle initial) and county ONLY. This means, unless there are other materials I didn't hear about, that having a common name could bar someone altogether from voting. There were no addresses, no birthdays, no ID numbers, or anything else to specify who was supposed to be barred. I found 2 counties in Florida where my first and last name were enough to get me disqualified, and 2 more where my first & last names with my middle initial were enough.

So maybe that was the deal to have africans Americans on the banned list and hispanics off the list (and thus able to vote republican). I suspect that a name like Martinez on the list would create problems for someone wanting the Latino vote. On the other hand, a name like Washington could disqualify a lot of african american voters, especially if no other qualifying information is given. It all makes sense to me now. Divide and conquer. That's their way.

[gatlingforme]

7. Jeb Bush would love it if all the Dems and felons last names were smith.

[soup]

8. *sigh*

Glenda, Glenda, Glenda

Glenda, who hired Accenture?
Glenda, who sent the purge list out to 67 Supervisors?
Glenda, who tried to keep the list from public view?
Glenda, who insisted the County Supervisors jump on that purge list and get it done in 7 days??
Glenda, why have only 33 of Florida's 67 counties completed the report to find and re-register those wrongfully purged in 2000?
Glenda, why isn't that a priority?
Glenda, is there a possibility you think a purge is more important than restoration?
Glenda, define MALFEASANCE.
Glenda, if the statewide voter list mandated in 2001 was completed in 2002, why did it take 2 years to devise the 'new' matching criteria for a faulty purge list?
Glenda, why did more than 2,100 people, many of them black Democrats, remain on the purge list despite winning clemency and regaining their right to vote?
Glenda, define GLITCH.
Glenda, would you say you are guilty of gross negligence or complete incompetence?
Glenda, when asked about the high number of blacks and Democrats on the purge list, jeb said, "It doesn't matter to me." Do you feel the same way?
Glenda, explain why the state paid $1.8 mil to Accenture and 'about $150,000' in attorney fees to a GOP-linked law firm to fight making the purge list public? ($425 per hour to Miami attorney Joe Klock Jr., plus $300 per hour for six more lawyers)
Glenda, since the purge list (product) was faulty, when do we get our money back?
Glenda, define FISCAL CONSERVATIVE.

Oh, by the way - Glenda, does the phrase 'purge list' irk you as much as it does jeb?
Glenda, define POTENTIAL FELON.

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Meanwhile, Gov. Jeb Bush is touting progress as the parole and corrections employees make their way through a backlog of 38,000 recently released prisoners and 125,000 felony cases that officials failed to review in the 1990s. About 42,000 of those whose cases were reviewed are eligible to have their rights restored without having to go through a clemency hearing.

Though clemency hearings aren't required for these eligible felons, other steps have to be taken before their voting rights are actually restored. The state parole commission says the process -- even without clemency hearings -- can take up to a year. So, many of these thousands of ex-felons won't have their voting rights restored before the November election.
too little too late
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Glenda, now about those touch screen machines and new rules exempting them from recounts....