ext_90803 ([identity profile] badlydrawnjeff.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] talkpolitics 2012-05-15 12:01 am (UTC)

The Republican administration of Jeb Bush hired a private company to purge voter rolls using very rough name matches as part of a highly publicized "election reform."

Nope, sorry. It was done by individual counties pursuant to Florida law.

They instructed this company to make those name matches as imprecise as possible in order to "net" as many voters. The result was a high number of false positives -- which the Republicans considered desirable.

They instructed the company to cast a wide net, again, per law. The idea is to keep illegitimate voters off the rolls. To ensure that those who are valid voters didn't get permanently removed, an appeals process was put in place.

And many individuals did not in fact learn that they had been purged until the day they attempted to vote.

That's their fault.

Minorities who are victimized by voter suppression aren't irresponsible. They are victims of voter suppression.

Except that no one was victimized by voter suppression.

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