February 17, 2005
Jeb! plan would enable state sponsored fraud
Jeb! has been steaming ever since last year when severe flaws were exposed in his felon scrub list, forcing the Secretary of State to make its use optional. Most local elections supervisors opted not to use the list, which contained tons of black democrats, but almost no Hispanic voters whatsoever.
Well, here’s Jeb!’s plan to eliminate those pesky problems in the future.
Reacting to Florida's persistent voting complications, Gov. Jeb Bush wants to change election law to centralize more authority in the executive branch.Gone would be the right of locally elected supervisors to interpret election law in a way different from the secretary of state.
Partisan poll watchers could keep challenging voters they suspect to be ineligible, but the voters would lose any recourse except to cast provisional ballots.
The secretary of state also would have increased authority to decide the manner in which names do and do not appear on the voting rolls, according to legislation proposed by the governor's office.
In other words, the very people who tried unsuccessfully to unfairly disenfranchise black Democrats while ignoring GOP Hispanics are to be given the power to force honest local officials to aid and abet them in the future.
More on the felonious junk felon scrub list.
Posted by Norwood at February 17, 2005 06:48 PM