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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
And on the subject of Florida, how did y'all determine that only .1% or whatever of those people had Hispanic names? If you only counted people with names that ended in vowels, it sounds like you would only hit Italians and the Polish.
If you eyeballed people and held a color chart up to their skin (you know, to get rid of black people from the list), you'd be ruling in or out many, many black-hispanics, a group that is particularly well-represented in an state like FLA.
Anyhoo, any idea how they figured out the list was *only* .1% hispanic names? This sounds like a leftist media planted story if I ever heard one.
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Good questions all, but you're not gonna muzzle us leftists that easily. The article (and my post) quotes the low Hispanic number for illustrative purposes, but it really looks to me like the problem was the methodology.
The Fla system was that the state criminal database would be compared with each county's voter list. Both lists are broken down by ethnicity. To make sure that the Ed Jones on the felon list was the Ed Jones on the voter list, the clerks were supposed to compare ethnicity of the Ed Jones on each list. If the ethnicity (and presumably other characteristics, can't tell from the article) matches, the guy gets purged.
The problem was that the felon list doesn't have a Hispanic category. So in other words, even if there was a felon listed under Hispanic on the voter list, that person would not get purged because that person would not be listed under "Hispanic" on the felon list. Because there was no Hispanic category.
As I said in my original post, I don't dispute that this is explainable as a coincidence or administrative oversight, but when these oversights keep piling up and keep working in favor of the party in charge it makes one wonder, leftist or no.
