At the time of the election, the purge list contained a number of false positives - people identified as felons who were not actually felons.

In fact, it was the requirement to verify the accuracy of the purge list that justified ChoicePoint's selection for the job as well as their astonishingly high fee.

The federal Civil Rights Commission asked the Justice Department to investigate the purge list that Florida uses to remove suspected felons from the voter rolls.

He was on Bowron's "purge list" in the 1939 election.

Dr. Berry wanted to know who had failed to find the flaw that resulted in Hispanic felons being left off the purge list.

And a voter registered as Hispanic whose name and birth date matched a felon's would be left off the purge list unless his race was listed as unknown.

Use of this purge list, combined with the state law that places the burden on voters to remove themselves from the list, resulted in denying many African-Americans the right to vote.

As a result, another 40,000 legal voters (in addition to the 57,700 on the purge list), almost all Democrats, could not vote.

He was one of five Council members on Mayor Fletcher Bowron's "purge list" in advance of the 1939 elections.