3/31/2005
Top-down election management
Those small-government Republicans vote to take power from locally elected elections supervisors and centralize it in Tallahassee.
Last year, Hood's office was responsible for creating a $2 million felon purge list that elections supervisors were told to use when removing ineligible voters from the voting rolls. But some supervisors could and did elect to ignore the list, while others used it.
Hood ultimately scrapped the list.
"If this rule had been in effect, she could have ordered all supervisors to comply with it," said Florida Democratic Party attorney Mark Herron.
