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Thousands of eligible voters on felon list

A Florida Division of Elections database lists more than 47,000 people the department said may be ineligible to vote because of felony records. The state is directing local elections offices to check the list and scrub felons from voter rolls.

But a Herald review shows that at least 2,119 of those names -- including 547 in South Florida -- shouldn't be on the list because their rights to vote were formally restored through the state's clemency process.

This makes me so ill, I can hardly stand it. If only HALF of those eligble voters voted in 2000 think about how different things would be!!! It's enough to bring tears to my eyes, y'all.

Of the 2,119 people who obtained clemency, 62 percent are registered Democrats, and almost half are black. Less than 20 percent are Republican. Those ratios are very close to the same in the list of 47,000 voters who the local elections officers are supposed to review and possibly purge from the registration rolls.

It's also sad that a news organization had to sue to get unfettered access the records. Why would the state fight to bar them from copying the records if they didn't know how fucked up the list was? Oh, right, they wouldn't. Disgusting.