Wronged voters still need a right (Fla Voters Still Blocked!)

[Nambe]

The News-Press Tallahassee Bureau

.. Public records show state officials in Tallahassee knew for almost a year that Bors and nearly 1,000 other voters were wrongly put on the Secretary of State’s 1999 and 2000 purge lists.

It was not until Aug. 12 that Secretary of State Glenda Hood sent county election supervisors those names, following a month of mediation with civil rights groups.

Local election officials say they are running out of time to return those people to the rolls before next week’s primary, raising the concern they’ll be blocked from another election. ..

County election supervisors in turn say they lack state direction.

There is no state guidance on what steps to take to tell someone, years later, that they can vote after all.

“I think everyone wants to do the right thing, but there’s no information. How do you do it?” said Doug Wilkes, elections supervisor in Santa Rosa County.

For his own part, Wilkes mistrusted the state’s old purge lists and did not use them. He expects, therefore, not to need to restore voters.

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[burrowowl]

1. Jimmy Carter!

Hie thee to Banana Repuglic Florida NOW!

[flordehinojos]

2. What a lot of "hogwash" from Glenda Hood and the rest of them under JEB's

own brand of slimiest Florida governorship. If they wanted to get those voting rights restored it would be done PRONTO. They picked at anything to get Miriam Oliphant suspended from her elected job and called her incompetent ... THEY OUGHT TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AT THEIR OWN BRAND OF SELF INFLICTED INCOMPETENCE. IMPEACH JEB.x(

[Occulus]

3. Very very very easy answer

DON'T PREVENT FELONS FROM VOTING.

See how damnably easy that solution is?

*cue Frodo*

[tlcandie]

5. LoL!!!!!

:+ :hi:

[LauraK]

4. We need to contact our reps and the DNC.

This need fixing right away.

[tlcandie]

6. It won't get done... jebbie OWNS this state and his rethug friends.

It was never going to get done. Expect more and worse in November. :cry:

[qwlauren35]

7. I hope someone can think of something to DO about this.

I got a NYTimes article about this, this morning.

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/23/opinion/23herbert.html

It made me sick to my stomach. But I feel completely powerless. This is a posterchild for the term "travesty of justice".

I can't believe that what they're doing isn't somehow ILLEGAL. If I could think of some way that the parties involved could be prosecuted, the group that took them to court would get my donation pronto.

[tom_paine]

8. Of course they'll be blocked.

That is how things work in Imperial Amerika.

Tyranny and Injustice for All.

(very soon coming into full flower from this "Tyranny Lite" we live under now...The Good Old Days)

[Bandit]

9. No one can be turned away from the polls and denied the vote

No One. Anybody that shows up has to be allowed to cast their ballot. It is called a "Contested Ballot" but they have to let them vote. No one can be turned away. Period.

[bullimiami]

10. they agreed to settle the civil rights lawsuit

they are in contempt. they were already in contempt by not fixing it before the 2002 election.

somone should get a judge to drag them back into court and force them to do it immediately or get tossed in jail for contempt.