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Florida felons illegally registered to vote





Well, the state is down to the wire on elections and now we find out that more than 30,000 felons are illegally registered to vote in the upcoming election. Florida's elections chief, Secretary of State Kurt Browning, says that his staff has failed to remove thousands of ineligible felons because of they are short of workers and swamped with new registrations.

To give you a better scope of the issue we put together an interactive map that shows the number of felons registered to vote by zip code.

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Credit for the interactive: Lindsay Dubois, Alex Bordens, Dana Williams

POSTED IN: Cindy Jones-Hulfachor (46), Government (48), Politics (29)

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God, how terrible.Surely they could have hired some temporary staff to remove the names. Sounds suspicious to me.

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