Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Wayners who wrote (467896)	9/30/2003 6:12:13 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

For what ever reason, this story has not been given it's due. I think that it is the homogenizing of the media that is partly responsible. The reason that it stinks is this: <The Florida Republicans wanted to block African Americans, who largely vote as Democrats, from voting. In 1999 they fired the company they were paying $5,700 to compile their felony “scrub” lists and replaced them with Database Technologies [DBT], who they paid $2.3 million to do the same job. [DBT is the Florida division of Choicepoint, a massive database company that does extensive work for the FBI.] > Did you note that the cost of maintaining the scrub list went from $5,700 to $2.3 million? DBT's massive databases were not even used. They used internet databases, that you and I can access, to do the scrubbing. Why this huge jump in cost? Does this make sense? There should be a scandal about the increase in cost alone, not to mention what they did...which was to purge the voter rolls using race as the qualifier. It's an outrage. Orca