".... the problem is not the fact that there is a list of felons that cannot vote, but that the list is incorrect."
Incorrect is an understatement.
The company that was contracted by Florida officials to compile this list included many who were eligible to vote and would then be prevented from voting. Sorta like the same list they used in 2000 to exclude voters.
"In November the U.S. media, lost in patriotic reverie, dressed up the Florida recount as a victory for President Bush. But however one reads the ballots, Bush's win would certainly have been jeopardized had not some Floridians been barred from casting ballots at all. Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state - Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, both protégées of Governor Jeb Bush- ordered 57,700 "ex-felons," who are prohibited from voting by state law, to be removed from voter rolls. (In the thirty-five states where former felons can vote, roughly 90 percent vote Democratic.) A portion of the list, which was compiled for Florida by DBT Online, can be seen for the first time here; DBT, a company now owned by ChoicePoint of Atlanta, was paid $4.3 million for its work, replacing a firm that charged $5,700 per year for the same service. If the hope was that DBT would enable Florida to exclude more voters, then the state appears to have spent its money wisely......"
Full text from 2000 here:
http://www.gregpalast.com/detail.cfm?artid=122&row=1
.....and an overview of what happened in the 2000 election and history trying to repeat itself for 2004 here:
http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/01/florida.elections/
Sherwood