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Florida's brimming with "potential felons." Florida wants to earn its frontrunner status in the eradication of American democracy. Again. Orlando Sentinel:

The state's push to remove thousands of "potential felons" from voter rolls is causing angst among local election officials, who worry about inaccurate information, unfair results and yet another round of election-year lawsuits.

Orange County Elections Supervisor Bill Cowles, who has almost 2,200 potential felons to verify, said computer data supplied to counties by the state is riddled with problems, including wrong names and criminal charges that may have been reduced.

Under state law, it is county election officials, not the state, who must verify convictions and notify people who would be dropped from voter rolls.

"You have to sift through it all - and that comes down to us," said Cowles, a Democrat. "We become the one who needs to face the voter."

State officials have identified nearly 50,000 voters as "potential felons" who could be stripped from voter lists - many of them Democrats and minorities who could swing an election in a state where Republicans and Democrats are roughly equal in number.

How exactly does anyone identify a "potential felon"? Is it about history, or proximity, or intention, or temptation, or what? If I even think about committing an enormous fraud, will I go to prison, like Ken Lay or Jeff Skilling?

Oh, yeah. Right.

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