Judge Says Media Can See Florida Voter Lists

This is good, but it's not enough unless the media does its job and really checks these lists out against the people and the histories. That, admittedly, will be a heluva job to accomplish and report accurately before November. Sure, computers help, but a lot of this will come down to phone calls, shoe leather, and lots and lots of cross checking.

I would actually love it if accurate results showed that Jeb Bush is not guilty of what many of us thought he was: purging the rolls of people with any flimsy technical connection to a criminal's name with the look at removing people who won't vote Republican. I'm still idealist enough to think that such a move would be heyond the basic ethics of anyone.

But I expect to be very sad about the correct results.