Cold day in hell before we see this investigation:
Members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights called on the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate possible voting-rights violations in Florida's troubled effort to purge felons from its voter registration lists.
At a hearing on the state's effort to use a list of 48,000 suspected felons to trim voter rolls, the civil rights commission's chairman, Mary Frances Berry, also urged the newly created federal Election Assistance Commission, which is distributing millions of dollars to the states for voting improvements, to consider withholding Florida's share....
On Saturday, the Florida secretary of state, Glenda Hood, suspended the state's felon effort, citing a methodological flaw that virtually guaranteed that voters who registered as Hispanics would not be purged, while thousands of blacks might be.
