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| | Florida's flawed "voter-cleansing" program - Salon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | 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. |
 | | In compiling a list by looking at felons from other states, Florida could, in the process, single out citizens who committed felons in other states but, after serving their time or successfully petitioning the courts, had their voting rights returned to them. |
| dir.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/12/04/voter_file/index.html (745 words) |
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