{"id":5894,"date":"2004-07-01T17:46:52","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T00:46:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/07\/01\/on-a-roll-2.html"},"modified":"2004-07-01T17:46:52","modified_gmt":"2004-07-02T00:46:52","slug":"on_a_roll_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/07\/01\/on_a_roll_2.html","title":{"rendered":"On a roll"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Florida state judge has ordered the state of Florida to release their current list of suspected felons<\/a> which it plans to use to scrub voter registration rolls.<\/p>\n

A similar purge list used in 2000 contained hundreds and possibly thousands of errors, barring some eligible Florida voters from the state’s presidential balloting. Republican George W. Bush gained the White House after winning Florida by 537 votes after a recount battle.
\n“This is good news for voters because now these records will be open and available for public inspection to help protect the right of every eligible voter in Florida,” said Howard Simon, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Florida, one of the plaintiffs.<\/p>\n

All well and good, and it should prevent the problems from the 2000 election, where accusations were made that many potential Demoacratic voters were improperly disenfranchised.<\/p>\n

Of course, now I’m waiting for someone to sue because their privacy has been violated …<\/p>\n

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A Florida state judge has ordered the state of Florida to release their current list of suspected felons which it plans to use to scrub voter registration rolls. 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