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The other issue that came out of Florida in 2000 was the sloppy way in which the state attempted to purge the voting registration records to ensure that person with criminal records were removed from the list as eligible voters. The problem was they purged people with the same name, people with misdomeanor convictions, and others. No one really knows how many eligible voters lost their voting rights, but the evidence suggested that most were in the minority communities in Florida.
Hopefully, the new law that mandates provisional ballots when a person's voting rights are questioned when they attempt to vote will make this less likely this time around.
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"The perfect is the enemy of the good."
~ Voltaire
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