Databases, felons, and voting: Bias and partisanship of the Florida felons list in the 2000 elections

Political Science Quarterly

Volumn 119, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 453-475

  Stuart, Guy ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 8744257758     PISSN: 00323195     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/20202391     Document Type: Review

References (40)

1. Jeff Manza, Christopher Uggen, and Marcus Britton, "The Truly Disfranchised: Felon Voting Rights and American Politics," Working Paper, Northwestern University, 2001.
2. Florida Constitution, Article VI, Section 4(a).
3. Alex Keyssar, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States (New York: Basic Books, 2000), 359.
4. Ibid., 390-396.
5. Andrew Shapiro, "Challenging Criminal Disenfranchisement Under the Voting Rights Act: A New Strategy," The Yale Law Journal 103 (1993): 537-544.
6. Richardson, County Clerk and Registrar of Voters of Mendocino County v. Ramirez et al., U.S. S. Ct. 418 (1974); John Mabry Mathews, Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment (New York: Da Capo Press, 1971 [1909]), 14-15.
7. Richardson, County Clerk and Registrar of Voters of Mendocino County v. Ramirez et al., U.S. S. Ct. 418 (1974); John Mabry Mathews, Legislative and Judicial History of the Fifteenth Amendment (New York: Da Capo Press, 1971 [1909]), 14-15.
8. Baker et al. v. George E. Pataki, Governor of the State of New York, and Philip Coombe, Acting Commissioner of the New York State Department of Correctional Services, 85 F.3d 919, United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit; 30 May 1996.
9. I b i d.
10. National Voting Rights Act of 1993, Public Law 103-31, Section 8, (a)(3)(B).
11. Ibid., Section 8(g).
12. Jamie Fellner and Marc Mauer, "Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States," The Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch, October 1998; Patricia Allard and Marc Mauer, "Regaining the Vote: An Assessment of Activity Relating to Felon Disenfranchisement Laws," The Sentencing Project, Human Rights Watch, 2000, accessed at http://www. sentencingproject.org, 6 August 2001.
13. Jamie Fellner and Marc Mauer, "Losing the Vote: The Impact of Felony Disenfranchisement Laws in the United States," The Sentencing Project and Human Rights Watch, October 1998; Patricia Allard and Marc Mauer, "Regaining the Vote: An Assessment of Activity Relating to Felon Disenfranchisement Laws," The Sentencing Project, Human Rights Watch, 2000, accessed at http://www. sentencingproject.org, 6 August 2001.
14. Doris Mackenzie, "Sentencing and Corrections in the 21st Century: Setting the Stage for the Future," report submitted to the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice, 2000, accessed at http://www.bsos.umd.edu/ccjs/corrections/Doc/sc21c.htm 7 September 2001.
15. Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Key Facts at a Glance: Correctional Populations" and "Key Facts at a Glance: Incarceration Rate Trends," accessed at http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/keytabs.htm, September 2001.
16. Bureau of Justice Statistics, "Correctional Populations in the United States, 1997," Chapter 1, NCJ 177613, Table 1.11.
17. Prison Reform Trust, "Barred From Voting," 2001, accessed at www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/ file_25_5_2001.html, 6 August 2001.
18. Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, "Voter Registration and Turnout," accessed at http://election.dos.state.fl.us/ elections/resultsarchive/, August 2001.
19. Allen Beck and Paige Harrison, "Prisoners in 2000," Bureau of Justice Statistics Bulletin, NCJ 188207, August 2001.
20. U.S. Department of Justice, "Restoring Your Right to Vote, Florida," 2000, accessed at www. usdoj.gov/crt/restorevote/Florida.pdf, 17 June 2002.
21. Manza, Uggen, and Britton, "The Truly Disfranchised."
22. Florida Statute, Title IX, Chapter 98, 98.0975(2), 2002.
23. 1999 and 2000 Exclusion Lists and April 2001 Central Voter File, available from author.
24. Gregory Palast, "Florida's Flawed 'Voter-Cleansing' Program," accessed at www.salon.com 4 December 2000; Commission on Civil Rights, "Florida's County Elections Offices Use of the Central Voter File List," internal memo, 2001, available from author upon request; Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election (Washington, DC: Commission on Civil Rights, 2001), Chapter 5, 12-19.
25. Gregory Palast, "Florida's Flawed 'Voter-Cleansing' Program," accessed at www.salon.com 4 December 2000; Commission on Civil Rights, "Florida's County Elections Offices Use of the Central Voter File List," internal memo, 2001, available from author upon request; Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election (Washington, DC: Commission on Civil Rights, 2001), Chapter 5, 12-19.
26. Gregory Palast, "Florida's Flawed 'Voter-Cleansing' Program," accessed at www.salon.com 4 December 2000; Commission on Civil Rights, "Florida's County Elections Offices Use of the Central Voter File List," internal memo, 2001, available from author upon request; Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election (Washington, DC: Commission on Civil Rights, 2001), Chapter 5, 12-19.
27. Palast. "Florida's Flawed 'Voter-Cleansing' Program."
28. Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida, Executive Summary, 5.
29. David Levin et al., "State Court Sentencing of Convicted Felons, 1996" (Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ175708, 2000).
30. Florida Department of Corrections, 1999-2000 Annual Report.
31. Manza, Uggen, and Britton, "The Truly Disfranchised," Appendices 1 and 2.
32. A description of Leon and Okaloosa Counties' purge methods can be found in Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida, Chapter 5, 12-13; for Hillsborough County, see Gregory Palast, "Florida's Flawed 'Voter-Cleansing' Program," accessed at www.salon.com, 4 December 2000.
33. A description of Leon and Okaloosa Counties' purge methods can be found in Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida, Chapter 5, 12-13; for Hillsborough County, see Gregory Palast, "Florida's Flawed 'Voter-Cleansing' Program," accessed at www.salon.com, 4 December 2000.
34. See, for example, Gregory Palast, "The Wrong Way to Fix the Vote," The Washington Post, 10 June 2001; Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida, 8.
35. See, for example, Gregory Palast, "The Wrong Way to Fix the Vote," The Washington Post, 10 June 2001; Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida, 8.
36. Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida, 9.
37. U.S. Department of Justice, "Restoring Your Right to Vote, Ohio, 2000," accessed at http://www. usdoj.gov/crt/restorevote/Florida.pdf, 17 June 2002.
38. Commission on Civil Rights, Voting Irregularities in Florida, Chapters 5, 7.
39. Keyssar, Right to Vote.
40. Marc Mauer, Race to Incarcerate (New York: The New Press, 1999).