Florida's 2000 felon purge program resulted in over 50,000 legal voters being disenfranchised. When asked for assurances that the 2004 felon list was 90 percent accurate -- the minimum level local supervisors of elections requested for such a list -- we were told that it was better than the 2000 list, with no data to support its accuracy.
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