🚀 go-pugleaf

Show you that governments are inherently inept at listing.  However,
Gore's bid for he White House is listing (for you Democrats that's:
tilting as in boat talk).

Jeff
On Thu, 7 Dec 2000 00:34:26 -0600, Carol Lee Smith <human@csd.uwm.edu>
wrote:

>U.R. Rong said:
>
>"There are few of his kind, convicted or not, that are not felons...                                                                      
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> Fla. paid for inaccurate felon lists
> 
> WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) - Florida's secretary of state spent $4
> million to purge voting lists of felons this year, but the lists
> were incorrect and caused mass confusion at county election offices.
> About 12,000 people were listed as having felony convictions in
> Texas and other states even though many had only been convicted of
> misdemeanors. Others on the list, compiled by a Boca Raton company,
> had had their voting rights reinstated. Still others were cases of
> mistaken identity. In Leon County, the elections office received a
> list of 694 suspected felons, who are ineligible to vote under state
> law. Of those, Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho said the county
> only confirmed 34 were actual felons. Sancho, chairman of the
> state's voting list committee for the secretary of state, said the
> lists compiled by Database Technologies are unreliable because they
> depend on information from government agencies that may be outdated
> and which the company fails to double check.
> 
>  Full article at: 
> http://www.infobeat.com/fullArticle?article=405227281
>
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