The Florida Republicans wanted to block African Americans, who largely vote as Democrats, from voting. In 1999 they fired the company they were paying $5,700 to compile their felony "scrub" lists and replaced them with Database Technologies [DBT], who they paid $2.3 million to do the same job. [DBT is the Florida division of Choicepoint, a massive database company that does extensive work for the FBI.]
ChoicePoint is an amazingly qualified company to do this kind of work. If florida had wanted them to give accurate results (like their contract said), they would have. The FBI doesn't pay for crap work
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Exactly. Refer above to mention of Greg Palast's work.
A quote from his site:
The Florida Republicans wanted to block African Americans, who largely vote as Democrats, from voting. In 1999 they fired the company they were paying $5,700 to compile their felony "scrub" lists and replaced them with Database Technologies [DBT], who they paid $2.3 million to do the same job. [DBT is the Florida division of Choicepoint, a massive database company that does extensive work for the FBI.]ChoicePoint is an amazingly qualified company to do this kind of work. If florida had wanted them to give accurate results (like their contract said), they would have. The FBI doesn't pay for crap work
So follow the money.