10/29/2004
Felons list redux
Now this is a puzzling story -- The Fla. GOP charges that felons already are voting. You'd think that the party guys would consider drawing more attention to the felons list fiasco to be A Bad Thing.
Sure enough: Reporters for the St. Petersburg Times quickly found two Tampa Bay area individuals on the GOP list who say they have had their voting rights restored.
The Herald's version -- The GOP found the allegedly illegal voters by using the same flawed list of felons that had been drawn up by the state elections division, but was scrapped after news organizations exposed its inaccuracies.
Yup, it appears this GOP felons list is the very same one the Division of Elections had to throw out because it was riddled with errors and strangely selective. The same one Gov. Jeb tried to use even though he was warned it was inaccurate.
Sure enough: Reporters for the St. Petersburg Times quickly found two Tampa Bay area individuals on the GOP list who say they have had their voting rights restored.
The Herald's version -- The GOP found the allegedly illegal voters by using the same flawed list of felons that had been drawn up by the state elections division, but was scrapped after news organizations exposed its inaccuracies.
Yup, it appears this GOP felons list is the very same one the Division of Elections had to throw out because it was riddled with errors and strangely selective. The same one Gov. Jeb tried to use even though he was warned it was inaccurate.
