Mass Fraud Fears In US Election

Capt'n Midnight

My problem it not whether felons can vote or not,
it's how they are identified for removal from the voters register.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A99749-2001May30

. Florida has one of the nation's strictest laws governing restoration of felons' voting rights. Thirty-one percent of the state's black men are barred from voting because of prior felonies.
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Florida does not regularly record Social Security numbers in its records, so its felons were identified by name and date of birth, including close but not exact matches.
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In an interview, Clay Roberts, director of the state's division of elections, confirmed the policy. "The decision was made to do the match in such a way as not to be terribly strict on the name."

In-house concerns persisted. "Let's remember there is a liability issue in our erroneously identifying individuals as felons or deceased," said George A. Bruder Jr., a company senior vice president, in a May 26, 2000, e-mail to Thorogood. "We need to be very careful in who we label as what. If we are unsure the default should be to NOT label them as anything."

The company admits it made some mistakes. One list sent to Florida officials inaccurately contained 8,000 people who had committed misdemeanors -- not felonies -- in Texas.

People wrongly tagged as felons because of the loose matching policy included judges and the father of a county election supervisor. Also on the list were at least 2,000 felons who moved to Florida from states that automatically restore voting rights.

Capt'n Midnight

FFS you couldn't make this stuff up.

Just to put this in perspective Miami has just had it's first month without a murder in the city limits since May 1966. Homicide detectives credit ever-improving emergency care with saving people who, perhaps 20 years ago, might have met their demise.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/12/felons/index.html

Florida Secretary of State Glenda Hood has decided to scrap a list that was intended to keep more than 47,000 suspected felons from voting in November.

Florida Gov. Jeb Bush agreed with the decision, his spokesman said Monday.

"The list will not be used," said Jacob DiPietre, a spokesman for Bush, whose state proved key to his brother's victory four years ago.

Hood decided over the weekend to dump the list, which was created by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, after news stories pointed out that the list included only 61 Hispanic names, DiPietre said.

The state's large Cuban population tends to vote Republican.

Manic Moran

Homicide detectives credit ever-improving emergency care with saving people who, perhaps 20 years ago, might have met their demise.

What's wrong with that? It's a phenomenon which has been noticed in the past, it's not new.

NTM

Capt'n Midnight

http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/population/011910.html
3.8 million Hispanics in Florida and 3 million blacks on that basis Blacks are 976 times more likely to have been on that list.

Back in 1980 there was the Mariel boatlift. Rumour has it that Castro took the opportunity to save a few quid on prison costs by offloading a few inmates to Florida. You've seen Scarface.

Hobbes

Unbelievable! I seriously hope someone gets jail time for this crap.

http://blog.ourvotelive.org/?p=199

According to multiple affidavits signed by witnesses available for comment to media, hundreds of voters were given misinformation and told to return at a time after the polls close.



Election Protection is investigating that after delays of up to eight hours – among the longest in the nation – resulting in hundreds of voters being denied their legal right to cast their ballot.



In addition, Election Protection in investigating several reports that elderly and disabled voters had their registration papers torn up in front of them after voters stated that they could not wait in the prohibitive lines.