Jeb Bush fails to throw out faulty felon voter list

FLORIDA Governor Jeb Bush ignored advice to throw out a flawed felon voter list before it went out to county election offices despite warnings from state officials, according to a published report this weekend.

In a May 4 email obtained by the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Florida Department of Law Enforcement computer expert Jeff Long told his boss that a Department of State computer expert had told him “that yesterday they recommended to the Gov that they ‘pull the plug’” on the voter database.

The email said state election officials “weren’t comfortable with the felon matching program they’ve got,” but added, “the Gov rejected their suggestion to pull the plug, so they’re ‘going live’ with it this weekend”.