What is "felons"

Usage examples of "felons".

November balloting, Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his Secretary of State Katherine Harris ordered local elections supervisors to purge 57,700 voters from registries on grounds they were felons not entitled to vote in Florida.

If the information on the state list seemed accurate enough when comparing names with those on county voter lists, people were classified as felons and were then sent warning letters.

A recently released University of Minnesota study estimates that, for example, 93 per cent of felons of all races favored Bill Clinton in 1996.

The voter fraud law required all 67 counties to purge voter registries of duplicate registrations, deceased voters and felons, many of whom, but not all, are barred from voting in Florida.

Florida counties that decided not to use the central voter file, essentially breaking the law and possibly letting some ineligible felons vote.

All 3,258 county residents who were identified as possible felons on the central voter file sent by the state were sent a certified letter informing them that their voting rights were in jeopardy.

Some had been convicted of a misdemeanor and not a felony, others were felons who had had their rights restored and others were simply cases of mistaken identity.

Iorio acknowledged that African-Americans made up 54 per cent of the people on the original felons list, though they constitute only 11.

Orange County, officials also sent letters to those identified as felons by the state, but they appear to have taken little care in their handling of the list.

In other words, there are no fewer than 40,000 reformed felons eligible to vote in Florida.

Hispanic felons, mostly poor, vote almost as solidly Democratic as African-Americans.

But this list too was in error, since a Texas law enacted in 1997 permits felons to vote after doing their time.

Altogether, DBT tagged for the scrub nearly 3,000 felons who came from at least eight states that automatically restore voting rights and who therefore arrived in Florida with full citizenship.

The laudable aim is to rid registries of the names of the dead, as well as of felons and others legally barred from voting.

It turns out that the felons on the list had served their time and had all their voting privileges reinstated.