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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neocon who wrote (149913)	5/31/2001 3:38:07 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 769670

Jeb is going to have a difficult run for reelection...from today's Washington Post: Botched Name Purge Denied Some the Right to Vote ...hundreds, perhaps thousands, of non-felons in Florida who civil rights lawyers contend were wrongly prevented from voting in the Nov. 7 election after state election officials and a private contractor bungled an attempt to cleanse felons from voter rolls. The effort was so riddled with errors that a more precise tally will probably never be possible. But it is clear that at least 2,000 felons whose voting rights had been automatically restored in other states were kept off the rolls and, in many cases, denied the right to vote. At the same time, some felons who should not have been allowed to vote slipped through and cast ballots. ... No one has proven intent to disenfranchise any group of voters, but the snafus have fueled a widespread perception among blacks that an effort was made to dilute their voting power in an election that George W. Bush won by 537 votes -- a victory margin of 0.00009 of the 5.9 million votes counted. washingtonpost.com