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Read how Republicans play

dirty with democracy to steal an election at any cost...

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<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color="#3333FF">

Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program</font>

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Secretary of State Katherine Harris hired a firm to</font>

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vet the rolls for felons, but that may have wrongly</font>

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kept thousands, particularly blacks, from casting</font>

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ballots.</font>

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- - - - - - - - - - - -

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By Gregory Palast</font>

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Dec. 4, 2000 | If Vice President Al Gore is</font>

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wondering where his Florida votes went, rather than</font>

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sift through a pile of chad, he might want to look at</font>

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a "scrub list" of 173,000 names knocked off the</font>

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Florida voter registry by a division of the office of</font>

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Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris. A close</font>

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examination suggests thousands of voters may have</font>

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lost their right to vote based on a flaw-ridden list of</font>

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purported "felons" provided by a private firm with</font>

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tight Republican ties.</font>

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Early in the year, the company, ChoicePoint, gave</font>

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Florida officials a list with the names of 8,000</font>

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ex-felons to "scrub" from their list of voters. But it</font>

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turns out none on the list were guilty of felonies,</font>

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only misdemeanors. The company acknowledged</font>

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the error, and blamed it on the original source of the</font>

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list -- the state of Texas.</font>

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Florida officials moved to put those</font>

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falsely accused by Texas back on</font>

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voter rolls before the election.</font>

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Nevertheless, the large number of</font>

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errors uncovered in individual</font>

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counties suggests that thousands of</font>

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eligible voters may have been turned</font>

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away at the polls.</font>

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Florida is the only state that pays a</font>

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private company that promises to</font>

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"cleanse" voter rolls. Secretary of</font>

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State Harris approved in 1998 the $4</font>

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million contract with DBT Online,</font>

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since merged into ChoicePoint, of Atlanta. The</font>

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creation of the scrub list, called the central voter file,</font>

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was mandated by a 1998 state voter fraud law,</font>

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which followed a tumultuous year that saw Miami's</font>

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mayor removed after voter fraud in the election,</font>

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with dead people discovered to have cast ballots.</font>

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The voter fraud law required all 67 counties to purge</font>

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voter registries of duplicate registrations, deceased</font>

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voters and felons, many of whom, but not all, are</font>

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barred from voting in Florida.</font>

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In the process, however, the list invariably targets a</font>

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minority population in Florida, where 31 percent of</font>

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all black men cannot vote because of a ban on</font>

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felons. In compiling a list by looking at felons from</font>

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other states, Florida could, in the process, single out</font>

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citizens who committed felons in other states but,</font>

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after serving their time or successfully petitioning the</font>

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courts, had their voting rights returned to them.</font>

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According to Florida law, felons can vote once their</font>

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voting rights have been reinstated.</font>

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And if this unfairly singled out minorities, it unfairly</font>

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handicapped Gore: In Florida, 93 percent of African</font>

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Americans voted for the vice president.</font>

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In the 10 counties contacted by Salon, use of the</font>

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central voter file seemed to vary wildly. Some found</font>

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the list too unreliable and didn't use it at all. But</font>

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most counties appear to have used the file as a</font>

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resource to purge names from their voter rolls, with</font>

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some counties making little -- or no -- effort at all to</font>

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alert the "purged" voters. Counties that did their best</font>

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to vet the file discovered a high level of errors, with</font>

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as many as 15 percent of names incorrectly</font>

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identified as felons.</font>

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News coverage has focused on some maverick</font>

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Florida counties that decided not to use the central</font>

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voter file, essentially breaking the law and possibly</font>

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letting some ineligible felons vote. On Friday, the</font>

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Miami Herald reported that after researching voter</font>

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records in 12 Florida counties -- but primarily in</font>

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Palm Beach and Duval counties, which didn't use</font>

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the file -- it found that more than 445 felons had</font>

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apparently cast ballots in the presidential election.</font>

<p><font color="#000099">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

But Palm Beach and Duval weren't the only</font>

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counties to dump the list after questioning its</font>

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accuracy. Madison County's elections supervisor,</font>

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Linda Howell, had a peculiarly personal reason for</font>

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distrusting the central voter file: She had received a</font>

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letter saying that since she had committed a felony,</font>

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she would not be allowed to vote.</font>

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Howell, who said she has never committed a felony,</font>

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said the letter she received in March shook her faith</font>

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in the process. "It really is a mess," she said.</font>

<p><font color="#000099">Reprint from <a href="http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html">Salon.Com</a></font>

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