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	Florida Central Voter File - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The creation of this file, which was used in the 2000 election, was mandated by a 1998 state voter fraud law, passed after the unveiling of fraud in the Miami election (where votes had apparently been cast by deceased people).
		Florida's election laws required Florida's 67 counties to purge voter registries of duplicate registrations, deceased voters and felons, many of whom, but not all, are barred from voting in Florida.
		Voter demographics authority David Bositis, a senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies in Washington, DC, reviewed The Nation's findings and concluded that the purge-and-block program was "a patently obvious technique to discriminate against fl voters".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Florida_Central_Voter_File (2535 words)

	Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Florida is the only state that pays a private company that promises to "cleanse" voter rolls.The state signed in 1998 a $4 million contract with DBT Online, since merged into ChoicePoint, of Atlanta.
		The creation of the scrub list, called the central voter file, was mandated by a 1998 state voter fraud law, which followed a tumultuous year that saw Miami's mayor removed after voter fraud in the election, with dead people discovered to have cast ballots.
		The voter fraud law required all 67 counties to purge voter registries of duplicate registrations, deceased voters and felons, many of whom, but not all, are barred from voting in Florida.
	dir.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html (745 words)

	Florida Voter Fraud Issues
		Recognizing that Florida's options may be somewhat restricted by the national law's requirement, and concerns about avoiding a "dual registration system" in which certain standards apply for state elections while others apply for federal elections, FDLE suggests that more registration and absentee ballot integrity protections are required if Florida voter fraud is to be reduced.
		It appears that the elderly voter or elderly witness to another's absentee ballot are often targeted for use in fraud schemes, perhaps because some of these voters may be easily manipulated or influenced by those in whom they have previously placed their trust.
		Absent the inclusion in voter registration records of significant personal identifier information that is not currently required of Florida voters, the opportunities to defraud the election process will abound through any voting method, be it absentee ballot, electronic voting, or by-mail voting.
	www.fdle.state.fl.us /Publications/voter_fraud.asp (6004 words)

	Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program - Salon.com's politics story of the year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		All 3,258 county residents who were identified as possible felons on the central voter file sent by the state in June were sent a certified letter informing them that their voting rights were in jeopardy.
		Though the central voter file was supposed to facilitate the process, it was often more troublesome than the monthly circuit court lists that she had previously used to clear her rolls of duplicate registrations, the deceased and convicted felons.
		Florida is the only state in the nation to contract the first stage of removal of voting rights to a private company.
	www.gregpalast.com /detail.cfm?artid=55&row=2 (2635 words)

	Felon Voting Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Cupples traces the history of Florida voter purges from 1998 legislation passed in response to voter fraud in the Miami mayoral election of 1997.
		That program (Florida statute 98) is aimed to cleanse Florida's central voter file of voters who had become ineligible by death, moving from the state, or were ex-felons whose voting rights had not been restored.
		The Florida secretary of state may cite the law to the fourth decimal, but her interpretation of it-that her office was to provide county officials a list of "potentially ineligible voters"-is chilling.
	www.whoseflorida.com /felon_voting_rights.htm (3140 words)

	American Civil Liberties Union : Citing Impact on Minorities, FL Voting Rights Project Urges DOJ to Object to Electoral ...
		Indeed, the Voter Responsibilities operates to impose a higher requirement of knowledge of the law on voters than that which was required and expected of elections officials in the past.
		Once a voter's name appears on this list, even by gross error, the burden is then shifted to the voter to prove their right to vote." However, as opposed to the current statute, there is no longer a requirement that there be any verification of information prior to the notification process.
		With respect to voters who move within a jurisdiction Florida's existing practice is as follows: if the voter appears at his or her old precinct to vote the voter is sent to the new precinct which corresponds to the voter's current address.
	www.aclu.org /VotingRights/VotingRights.cfm?ID=7372&c=168 (4109 words)

	Florida's pre-election voter-roll purging: Threats to voting rights
		The goal was to remove ineligible voters including those who had died, moved, or been convicted of felonies and had not had their civil rights restored.
		Florida felons cannot vote without having rights restored in Florida, but this is not the case for felons who come to Florida with rights previously restored.
		Florida Department of State (1998), a Florida Court of Appeal stated: "Once another state restores the civil rights of one of its citizens whose rights had been lost because of a conviction in that state, they are restored and the State of Florida has no authority to suspend or restore them..."
	www.afn.org /~iguana/archives/2001_09/20010909.html (3894 words)

	ChoicePoint - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As of 2002, Florida is the only state which hires a private firm for these purposes.
		On April 17, 2000, at a special Congressional hearing in Atlanta, ChoicePoint Vice-President James Lee testified that Florida had ordered DBT to add to the list voters who matched 80% of an ineligible voter's name; middle initials and suffixes were to be dropped, while nicknames and aliases were added.
		The Florida legislature’s decision to privatize its list maintenance procedures without establishing effective clear guidance for these private efforts from the highest levels, coupled with the absence of uniform and reliable verification procedures, resulted in countless eligible voters being deprived of their right to vote.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ChoicePoint (2227 words)

	Florida Legislature 2002 Session: News from the State House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Southwest Florida: Secretary of State Katherine Harris is the Republican candidate to replace retiring GOP Rep. Dan Miller.
		Central Florida: Republican House Speaker Tom Feeney, who tried to settle the disputed election by naming electors for George W. Bush while the legal battle was still going, is running in a new congressional district.
		Florida House Speaker Tom Feeney, a Republican who pushed to name electors before the recount legal battle was over, is running in a new district in central Florida.
	www.floridacapitalnews.com /legislature/stories/020415recountraces.html (848 words)

	Websites about Florida - Brevard County Libraries
		Florida Highwaymen - A group of fl artists working on the east coast of Florida, are introduced by Jim Fitch, director of the Museum of Florida’s Art and Culture.
		Florida Trend's Florida Small Business : Growing a Small Business in Florida - (print version available) presents a wealth of information for new business ventures on topics such as legal structure, finance, marketing, legal and government requirements, taxation, copyright, forms, and permits, insurance, business plans, and the names and numbers of contacts.
		Florida Memory Project - Provides a selection of primary records that represent significant moments in the State's past, educational resources for students young and old, and collections that are useful for historical and genealogical research.
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	Goals
		We want to educate all Florida citizens and their political representatives about the elections process with the aim of increasing their participation in overseeing elections and elections officials.
		Contributions are not being solicited from outside the State of Florida and are not tax-deductible.
		Florida Fair Elections Center is a program of International Humanities Center, a nonprofit organization under Section 501(c)(3) of the IRS Code.
	www.floridafairelections.org /goals.htm (491 words)

	Evidence Mounts That The Vote May Have Been Hacked
		In Baker County, for example, with 12,887 registered voters, 69.3% of them Democrats and 24.3% of them Republicans, the vote was only 2,180 for Kerry and 7,738 for Bush, the opposite of what is seen everywhere else in the country where registered Democrats largely voted for Kerry.
		One possible explanation for this is the "Dixiecrat" theory, that in Florida white voters (particularly the rural ones) have been registered as Democrats for years, but voting Republican since Reagan.
		Be they Diebold Opti-Scan machines, which read paper ballots filled in by pencil or ink in the voter's hand, or the scanners that read punch cards, or the machines that simply record a touch of the screen, in all cases the final tally is sent to a "central tabulator" machine.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines04/1106-30.htm (2097 words)

	Katherine Harris Not Responsible for Felon Purges [Free Republic]
		Despite the race-baiting claims of leading liberals, including the Rev. Jesse Jackson, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris was not responsible for her state’s botched attempt to purge felons from its voting rolls.
		The purge was conducted pursuant to a 1998 Florida law that required the state to hire a private firm to compile a database of felons and dead people on the states’ voting lists.
		The list that was later produced by DBT included nonfelons because Florida’s central voter file does not include Social Security numbers that could be used to differentiate between two people who have the same name.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3aa943a227ca.htm (1625 words)

	Voting Irregularities
		The counties in Florida that used touchscreen voting had a relatively normal distribution of final votes for Bush and Kerry compared to the amount of registered democrats and republicans and the projected turnout.
		Provisional ballots are ballots that voters are allowed to cast if the voter’s name isn’t on the voter roll at their polling place.
		There are 92,000 spoiled punchcards, because voters were given the wrong type of pen to mark the optiscan ballots, and some precincts were given a different weight of punchcard which did not read as well as recommended weight.
	ideamouth.com /voterfraud.htm (3496 words)

	Opinion: Unreliable voter lists
		While state and county officials have made other changes with relative ease, the central voter database remains a stumbling block to a complete elections overhaul.
		The Legislature ordered state elections officials to create a reliable central list of voters, and suggested that the division contract with the state clerks of court association, which already kept several statewide databases.
		Otherwise, Florida will be giving tacit approval to a unverified database for which nobody wants to take responsibility.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/01/05/Opinion/Unreliable_voter_list.shtml (638 words)

	Opinion
		Plus, nonpartisan volunteers who work to get more voters registered could be held liable for errors beyond their control, under the new regulations.
		It punishes civic and labor groups trying to boost voter rolls, but political parties that do the same are exempt from the fines.
		Regardless of the case's outcome, prospective new voters should remember that registration deadlines for 2006 elections are fast approaching -- August 7 to vote in the Sept. 5 primary and Oct. 10 to vote in the Nov. 7 general election.
	www.floridatoday.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060528/OPINION/605280305/1004 (535 words)

	Rants and Raves Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This is the woman who brought her skills as a commercial real estate broker and granddaughter of a cattle and citrus mogul to the office charged with managing the state's elections and developing historical and cultural exhibitions.
		In 1998, Harris was elected Florida secretary of state and oversaw the operation to remove "ineligible" voters from the registration rolls prior to the 2000 election.
		Florida courts previously had ruled that this is unlawful since most states automatically restore voting rights to felons who have completed their sentences, and Florida does not have the power to abridge those rights.
	www.whoseflorida.com /rants_raves_archive.htm (11232 words)

	Orlando Weekly - Features Story - Rights and responsibility
		The problem of identifying -- and properly purging -- felons from Florida's voter rolls is not new to Patricia Hollarn.
		In 1998, when the legislature created the Central Voter File, local elections supervisors began to rely on lists issued by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to identify ex-cons as ineligible voters.
		The problem, she said, was at least partially remedied by having the counties periodically download their information to the Central Florida Voter File.
	www.orlandoweekly.com /features/story.asp?id=2081 (365 words)

	State: New voter rolls arouse more fears
		Harris has repeatedly said no voters were disenfranchised, but she joined Gov. Jeb Bush and legislators in making a reliable roll a priority.
		Talks between the state and the clerks broke down after the clerks insisted that the state pay for a $300,000 study to verify the accuracy of the data from statewide lists of felons, the deceased and those whose civil rights have been restored.
		The objective is to match a list of eligible voters against the criminal history files of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
	www.sptimes.com /News/120201/State/New_voter_rolls_arous.shtml (1108 words)

	Tonya Bolden, author of Strong Men Keep Coming and The Book of African American Women Home (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In Florida, convicted felons are not allowed to vote even after they have paid their debt (An issue we can address later).
		To an extent they were successful as many frustrated voters after being stuck in traffic either aborted their trip to the poll or got to the polls too late to vote.
		The Republicans knew that Florida would be a pivotal state, and with their soldiers in perfect positions, they conspired to steal the election.
	www.tonyabolden.com /pw0101.html (1953 words)

	portland imc - 2006.06.14 - ChoicePoint: the Corporatist KGB
		Their PR flack told me at the time, "Given the outcome of our work in Florida, and with a new president in place (!), we think our services will expand across the country." But then we caught them -- and they quit elections games and moved on to saving us from Al Qaeda.
		Congressional hearings on the breach have revealed that ChoicePoint disclosed in recent SEC filings that it was only looking for victims from the data leak incident whose information had been stolen after July 1, 2003, the effective date of a California law requiring that victims of personal information breaches be notified[7].
		Journalist Greg Palast has shown[10] that the firm cooperated with Florida Governor Jeb Bush, Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, and Florida Elections Unit Chief Clay Roberts, in a conspiracy of voter fraud, involving the central voter file, during the US Presidential Election of 2000.
	portland.indymedia.org /en/2006/06/341050.shtml (2633 words)

	CFP 2004 / Computer Freedom & Privacy Conference
		Kim Alexander is president of the California Voter Foundation (CVF), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization she started in 1994 to advance new technologies to improve democracy.
		As Registrar of Voters for San Bernardino County, Scott is responsible for administering elections for the largest geographic election jurisdiction in the continental United States (21,000 square miles), with 650,000 registered voters.
		Mark Lemley is the Elizabeth Josslyn Boalt Chair in Law at the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley, and a co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology.
	www.cfp2004.org /program/speakers.html (17893 words)

	The Best Democracy Money Can Buy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is about corporate corruption, finance, globalization, political corruption, and the 'stolen' United States presidential election of 2000.
		The first chapter goes into great depth covering the Florida Central Voter File, commonly referred to as the Florida scrub list, starting with a Thomas Cooper who was prevented from voting in 2000 because of a supposed January 30th, 2007 conviction date.
		Chapter 1 - Jim Crow in Cyberspace: The unreported Story of how they fixed the vote in Florida
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Best_Democracy_Money_Can_Buy (168 words)

	Florida Cracker: February 2004 Archives
		Just forward the Smith file to the Florida Legislature with a little yellow sticky note on it that says "I did nothing wrong." That'll work.
		But Florida Department of Corrections Secretary James Crosby Junior says the judge never even called for a hearing in which the officer would have presented evidence against Smith.
		If Southern white voters don't see through the Southern Strategy scam, wealthy Republicans who are indifferent to the plight of daily-grind wage earners, will once again successfully use appeals to racial fears and religiously grounded intolerance to pit people with common economic interests against one another.
	www.florida-cracker.org /archives/2004_02.html (10196 words)

	A Rose By Any Other Name (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I have been shown in the files of the War Department a statement of the Adjutant General of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously in the field of battle.
		I feel how weak and fruitless must be any word of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of a loss so overwhelming.
		Flores-Sanz was part of a three-vehicle convoy traveling from Baghdad International Airport to central Baghdad, when the vehicles were attacked simultaneously by a rocket-propelled grenade shot from a rooftop and an improvised explosive device that was remote-detonated on the ground.
	arosebyname.blogspot.com (7108 words)

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