Dirty Partisan Politics in Florida

This story truly alarms and offends me:

Presidential Elections - AP

Report: Jeb Bush Ignored Felon List Advice
1 hour, 48 minutes ago
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. - Florida Gov. Jeb Bush ignored advice to throw out a flawed felon voter list before it went out to county election offices despite warnings from state officials, according to a published report Saturday.

In a May 4 e-mail obtained by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida Department of Law Enforcement computer expert Jeff Long told his boss that a Department of State computer expert had told him "that yesterday they recommended to the Gov that they 'pull the plug'" on the voter database.
The e-mail said state election officials "weren't comfortable with the felon matching program they've got," but added, "The Gov rejected their suggestion to pull the plug, so they're 'going live' with it this weekend."



This is the list that wrongfully excluded so many African American voters (heavily Democrat) in the 2000 election. The reason? Their last names or social security numbers were similar to convicted criminals. One of the legacies of slavery is that so many African Americans have the same last name. Because of what Republican election officials refer to as a "technical error," very few Hispanics (80% Republican in Florida and 20% of the population) who were supposed to be on the list made it.

This is really scary. This dirty tactic is even creepier than stopping the recount.