Pre-election Cleansing
Between May 1999 and Election Day 2000, two Florida secretaries of state, Sandra Mortham and Katherine Harris, distributed the scrub lists produced by the cleansing process to counties and ordered the 57,700 people identified as felons to be removed from voter rolls. Together the lists comprised nearly 1% of Florida's electorate and nearly 3% of its African-American voters.
At the time of the election, the purge list contained a number of false positives — people identified as felons who were not actually felons.
Read more about this topic: Florida Central Voter File
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