Re: Roger
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:You will recall that Catherine Harris et al went after felons whom they suspected were African-American in Florida. They were targeted by residential area where racial clusters were easily identified.
Pure BS. The law in FL said that felons weren't allowed to vote and that law has been in place since 1868. Your attempt to spin that into Harris going after blacks is BS. She didn't make the law and she didn't decide who would commit crimes. She was directed to *automate* the process of IDing felons after felons and dead people elected a mayor in Miami.
There obvioulsy were problems with how the the list of felons was put together but the jump to the conclusion that the list was made just to targets blacks is nothing but delusion and was proven to be false by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
A few facts from the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights:
- The original list had 42,389 people on it
- That list was reviewed months prior to the election and ended up with a total of 19,398 actually removed from the voter rolls.
- All 19,000+ of those people were notified by letter 2 months prior to the election that they were ineligible to vote because of their felony record.
- 5,400 people responded to those letters with an appeal of the decision and 2,500 of them were cleared and returned to the voter rolls. The remainder were in fact felons and were left on the list.
- A grand total of 108 legitimate voters were actually prevented from casting ballots.
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