At Least We Won't Be Surprised

This Miami Herald article says that only 33 of 67 Florida counties have bothered to verify that people dropped from the voting rolls after being identified as felons really deserved to be dropped. I don't think felons deserve to lose their right to vote—it continues to punish someone who has already paid his or her debt to society—but that's irrelevant here. As we all know, thousands of voters were illegally dropped from the voter rolls before the 2000 election because their names were erroneously on lists of felons; almost 700 of them have been reinstated so far. Now, six months before the presidential election, over half of the counties in question—including some of the most populous counties in the state—have failed to check their lists. In addition, counties are being asked to examine another list of 47,000 voters identified as "possible felons." Any guesses about which task they'll complete first?