Voter purge riles group

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Civil rights organizations file lawsuits, seek records of turned-away voters

A cloud is gathering, again, over Florida's presidential race as voting rights groups challenge the state's election system.

The Department of State has 16 election-related lawsuits, pending or just completed, against it with the most recent filed in September.

Civil rights groups have begun to seek access to the state agency's inner workings, demanding records that show who is registered and who is turned away.

Lawyers for Florida accuse them of election sabotage, attempting to "create an atmosphere of turmoil where there is none."

The potentially most inflammatory disputes center, as they did in 2000 and 2004, over Florida's reliance on computer matches to decide who can and cannot vote.Read More ...

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Yakov Skink.