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Sunday, October 17, 2004
Still More on the Purge List
Several days before the state's felon voter list was sent to county elections offices across Florida, state officials expressed doubts about its reliability.- Gainesville Sun originally from the Sarasota Herald Tribune
The doubts were serious enough that Gov. Jeb Bush was advised to "pull the plug" on the entire project, according to an e-mail written by a state computer expert and obtained by the Herald- Tribune.
Bush refused the request, the e-mail said, and told the Department of State to proceed with the purge of nearly 48,000 voters.
Two months later, after flaws in the list were exposed in the press, the state abandoned the effort to purge voters on the list. Those flaws were revealed after Secretary of State Glenda Hood lost a court battle to keep the list hidden from the public.
Bush said Friday that he was never warned about any problems before the list was released.
But his denial contradicts a May 4, 2004, e-mail in which Florida Department of Law Enforcement computer expert Jeff Long describes how election officials told Bush the list needed to be abandoned.
I could rant about this a bit, but I'm really tired and my face hurts from the sunburn I got today waiting to see John Edwards when he came to Gainesville. It was great by the way, more on that later.
posted by Tom, 10/17/2004 10:24:00 PM
