Al Gore's key constituency was felons
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From: TKeating on 25 Jul 2010 03:18 The Trentonian (trentonian.com), Serving Trenton, NJ Opinion TRENTONIAN EDITORIAL: Al Gore's key constituency was felons Saturday, July 24, 2010 Al Gore came as close as he did to winning the Florida vote in the 2000 presidential election thanks in no small measure to the felon vote. A Miami Herald investigation of one sample of ballots found 445 votes cast illegally by felons. That number statewide extrapolated to a possible 5,000 voting felons. The Herald found that 75 percent of felon voters were registered Democrats. More recently in Minnesota, a conservative activist group found that 341 felons illegally cast ballots in the election that put former Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken, a Democrat, in the U.S. Senate. Since Franken prevailed by a scant 312 votes, the felon constituency may have been what nudged him to victory. Apparently, if youre a pol in a tight race, youd best be mindful what you say about crime and criminals. Going too heavy on the law-n- order stuff just might cost you the election. URL: http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/07/24/opinion/doc4c4badcab7374146938565.prt 2010 trentonian.com, a Journal Register Property
From: erschroedinger on 26 Jul 2010 16:34
On Jul 25, 3:18 am, TKeating <TKeat...(a)hushmail.com> wrote: > The Trentonian (trentonian.com), Serving Trenton, NJ > > Opinion > > TRENTONIAN EDITORIAL: Al Gore's key constituency was felons > Saturday, July 24, 2010 > > Al Gore came as close as he did to winning the Florida vote in the > 2000 presidential election thanks in no small measure to the felon > vote. A Miami Herald investigation of one sample of ballots found 445 > votes cast illegally by felons. That number statewide extrapolated to > a possible 5,000 voting felons. The Herald found that 75 percent of > felon voters were registered Democrats. Doesn't tell you who they voted for. And that was based on one sample. > > More recently in Minnesota, a conservative activist group found that > 341 felons illegally cast ballots in the election that put former > Saturday Night Live comedian Al Franken, a Democrat, in the U.S. > Senate. Since Franken prevailed by a scant 312 votes, the felon > constituency may have been what nudged him to victory. How do you know they voted for Franken? > > Apparently, if youre a pol in a tight race, youd best be mindful > what you say about crime and criminals. Going too heavy on the law-n- > order stuff just might cost you the election. > > URL:http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2010/07/24/opinion/doc4c4badcab737.... > > 2010 trentonian.com, a Journal Register Property Ion Sancho, the supervisor of elections in Leon County, told members of a U.S. House judiciary panel that because of a flawed list that sought to identify felons, about 20,000 legal Florida voters were barred from casting ballots in 2000 -- ``a contest decided by a mere 537 votes.'' And Sancho noted that although Florida officials in 2007 agreed to restore voting rights to nonviolent offenders, the Legislature has not funded the program and there's at least a 3-year waiting period for rights restoration. Florida may have changed the outcome of the 2000 presidential election when Secretary of State Katherine Harris oversaw a purge of suspected felons that removed an untold number of eligible voters from the rolls. This year, state officials are conducting a new purge that may be just as flawed. They have developed a list of 47,000 voters who may be felons, and have asked local officials to consider purging them. But The Miami Herald found that more than 2,100 of them may have been listed in error, because their voting rights were restored by the state's clemency process. Last week, the state acknowledged that 1,600 of those on the list should be allowed to vote. So who knows anything? So maybe some of the felons weren't voting illegally anyway. |