[Tenchiro]

Report: Jeb Bush Ignored Felon List Advice
Sun Oct 17,10:17 AM ET


TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - 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 published report Saturday.

In a May 4 e-mail obtained by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida Department of Law Enforcement computer expert Jeff Long told his boss that a Department of State computer expert had told him "that yesterday they recommended to the Gov that they 'pull the plug'" on the voter database.

The e-mail said state election officials "weren't comfortable with the felon matching program they've got," but added, "The Gov rejected their suggestion to pull the plug, so they're 'going live' with it this weekend."

Long, who was responsible for giving elections officials his department's felon database, confirmed the contents of the e-mail Friday to the Herald-Tribune. He said he didn't remember the specifics, but that Paul Craft, the Department of State's top computer expert, had told him about the meeting with Bush.

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.

Florida link

 

[Silver]

Why can't felons who have served their sentence vote, anyways?

 

[Toshi]

Why can't felons who have served their sentence vote, anyways?

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Marty Connors stated a bald truth: "As frank as I can be," he said, "we're opposed to [restoring voting rights] because felons don't tend to vote Republican."

linky linky

 

[zod]

Those damn Republicans, why can't they play by the rules like the DNC????

http://www.drudgereport.com/dnc47.htm

 

[fluff]

Let's invade Florida and give them democracy!

 

[zod]

They already have democracy fluff, the DNC wants to give them Socialism.......

 

[Tenchiro]

Let's invade Florida and give them democracy!

Nah, I say we dig a trench across the state and float them out to sea. :devil:

 

[fluff]

They already have democracy fluff, the DNC wants to give them Socialism.......

How good is democracy if it comes with automatic disenfranchisement for certain parts of the electorate?

 

[bmxr]

LOL! We don't vote the way you want us to and your answer is to "float us out to sea". Go democracy!

 

[Jr_Bullit]

LOL! We don't vote the way you want us to and your answer is to "float us out to sea". Go democracy!

Who exactly, does your "We" encompass? It would appear that your selective "we" only includes those groups you know for certain would vote (R), and eliminates specifically groups that might have a tendency to not vote (R), or heaven forbid might want to think through the issues for themselves and make their own decision. Representative government, last I checked, means it represents the majority - it doesn't mean the bully on the block gets to remove the right to vote from those it deems unfit.

 

[fluff]

LOL! We don't vote the way you want us to and your answer is to "float us out to sea". Go democracy!

Hy, vote any way you want, just don't stop anyone else from doing the same. That'd be a step in the right direction.

 

[Tenchiro]

LOL! We don't vote the way you want us to and your answer is to "float us out to sea". Go democracy!

It has nothing to do with who you vote for, but how your state continually fails to handle the entire voting system. I mean there have been many times since the 2000 election that scandalous headlines have crept out of Florida, in regards to voting.

They have gone as far as to make you vote three weeks early, just in case.

 

[MTB_Rob_NC]

It has nothing to do with who you vote for, but how your state continually fails to handle the entire voting system. I mean there have been many times since the 2000 election that scandalous headlines have crept out of Florida, in regards to voting.

They have gone as far as to make you vote three weeks early, just in case.

Vote early and vote often right?

 

[bmxr]

Who exactly, does your "We" encompass? It would appear that your selective "we" only includes those groups you know for certain would vote (R), and eliminates specifically groups that might have a tendency to not vote (R), or heaven forbid might want to think through the issues for themselves and make their own decision. Representative government, last I checked, means it represents the majority - it doesn't mean the bully on the block gets to remove the right to vote from those it deems unfit.

"We" simply meant Floridians. Gore lost Florida and the last election, it's time to move on.

And "they" don't "make" us vote early. We CAN vote early if we choose to.