State purges 7,000 felons from voting rolls
By Steve Bousquet, Times/Herald Tallahassee Bureau Tuesday, May 22, 2012 TALLAHASSEE — As Florida scours its voter rolls in search of non-U.S. citizens, another form of purging continues: stripping convicted felons of the ability to vote, including high numbers of Democrats and African-Americans. In the first four months of 2012, election supervisors removed nearly 7,000 voters from the rolls ...