Vote suppression in Florida
From TPM (http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/004751.php )
http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/NEWS0107/711180401/1075
County election officials say the number of voters lost through Florida’s central registration system is small — 90 percent of applications get voter cards.
The result is applications from more than 43,000 Floridians hoping to become eligible voters over the past 21 months were rejected by state computer programs and kicked out for special review.
More than 14,000 initially rejected — three-quarters of them minorities — didn’t make it through that last set of hoops.
Blacks were 6 1/2 times more likely than whites to be rejected at that step.
Hispanics were more than 7 times more likely to be failed.
