Senator Objects To Secrecy Of (FL) Voter List

[CShine]

TALLAHASSEE - U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson on Monday joined a growing chorus objecting to the secrecy surrounding a list of felons to be purged from Florida voter rolls. Nelson, a Democrat from Tallahassee, filed a friend-of- the-court brief in Leon County Circuit Court in connection with a lawsuit originally brought by the CNN television news network. It challenges a state law restricting access to the list.

Also Monday, the Tallahassee-based First Amendment Foundation and several Florida newspapers, including The Tampa Tribune, indicated that they had filed to intervene in support of the CNN suit or would do so soon.

Nelson cited the ``awful experience'' of the 2000 presidential election, when hundreds, possibly thousands, of voters were erroneously prohibited from voting. George W. Bush carried Florida that year by 537 votes of the 6 million cast.

``We now have the makings for a repeat of the same thing,'' Nelson said.

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[Rebellious Republican]

1. Go Bill, lets light this candle, may be to little to late though.......

anyone else think it can be obtained before November. It sure would go a long way towards proof of elections fraud. At least if they had to go public with a list prior to the election, it force them to turn over list "B", the correct list. We all know that they have two lists, the real one and the "Devious Plan" list! Lets hope we can get them to produce it before the election, one less way for them to try to steal the election.

:bounce:

[peacetalksforall]

2. SECRECY equals GUILT

When you consider the players, the stakes, and Jeb's legacy and history.

There is no doubt about it!

But, let's hear it, what is the reason that Jeb and his Secretary thinks the list has to be sealed.

[Just Me]

3. He needs to get one of his buddies to file a class action suit,...

,...on behalf of the voters, right freakin' now!!!

[struggle4progress]

4. kick

:kick:

[Samantha]

5. This is an important story

which deserves another kick.