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Florida voters cant vote because incorrect felon list Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/florida/2004-05-25-felons-purged_x.htm http://www.usatoday.com/news/politicselections/state/florida/2004-05-25-felons-purged_x.htm Florida hoping to avoid problems as voting rolls purged of felons TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) -- Supervisors of elections are going through the tedious process of purging felons from voting lists, hoping to avoid removing people who are entitled to vote -- a problem that became a sore subject after the 2000 presidential recount. Supervisors are reviewing thousands of names of people who may not be eligible to vote under state law because of felony convictions. But the lists they're working from contain people who have not lost their right to vote. Some may have been charged with a felony, but not convicted. Some may have reached a plea bargain that reduced charges to a misdemeanor. Some may have had their voting rights restored by the Clemency Board. And some may just be on the list by mistake. "We don't think for a moment that all of those names are matches," said Secretary of State Glenda Hood. It only took a moment for the Leon County elections office to find out that there were flaws. "Within three minutes we identified an individual who should not be on the list. Right off the bat," said Supervisor of Elections Ion Sancho. He said one of his employees knew the individual. Supervisors of elections in all 67 counties have to go over the names one-by-one and verify that people on the list are indeed felons, that they are the same people on voting lists and that their voting rights have not been restored. "The state has had a tough time implementing the law," said Kay Clem, the Indian River County supervisor who also serves as president of the Florida Association of Supervisors of Elections. After the 2000 election, in which George W. Bush was declared the winner by 537 votes following five weeks of recounts and challenges, cases popped up around the state of people who were taken off of voting rolls even though they weren't felons. A private company was hired to identify ineligible voters before the 2000 election, but the list it created contained scores of errors and elections supervisors used it to remove voters without verifying its accuracy. Clem said she received three calls during the 2000 election from voters who complained they were mistakenly taken off voter rolls. She allowed each to vote. "How do you make somebody prove on election day that they're not a felon?" she said. "I'd rather err on the side of letting them vote than not vote." While acknowledging that there are still problems with this year's list, which is provided by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, supervisors say each of the counties will verify each name before removing someone from voting rolls. "We have to do research, we have to investigate. There will be no supervisor of elections, as they did in 2000 for example, that will utilize the list exclusively to remove voters," said Sancho. "We understand now that the lists are imperfect. If the supervisor of elections can't determine that an individual is a felon with 100% certainty, they shouldn't be removed." Clem has sent an e-mail to each of the supervisors saying that they will discuss how to handle the felons purge at the supervisors' annual conference in Key West next month. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, which criticized problems with the voting lists after the 2000 election, is monitoring this year's purge. But Charles Evans, president of the Leon County NAACP, said the state is making a better effort to make sure mistakes aren't made. "There is a change and there's more concern," he said. "I don't believe they want to see what happened in 2000 happen again in 2004. It would send a real bad message to everyone around the United States." The American Civil Liberties Union, Florida Democratic Party and other groups have expressed concerns over the purge. "That's really irresponsible on behalf of the state to send a list that they know is imperfect to the county supervisors," said Scott Maddox, chairman of the Florida Democratic Party. Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.

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